Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
R Programming By Example

You're reading from   R Programming By Example Practical, hands-on projects to help you get started with R

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
Author Profile Icon Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
Author Profile Icon Omar Trejo Navarro
Omar Trejo Navarro
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to R 2. Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. Predicting Votes with Linear Models 4. Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases 5. Communicating Sales with Visualizations 6. Understanding Reviews with Text Analysis 7. Developing Automatic Presentations 8. Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies 9. Implementing an Efficient Simple Moving Average 10. Adding Interactivity with Dashboards 11. Required Packages

Styling our application with themes

Up to this point, we have been using the theme provided by default by Shiny, but now that our application is finished, we want to stylize it with some tech-looking colors. In that case, we can use the shinythemes and ggthemr packages, which provide us with an easy way to apply themes to Shiny applications and ggplot2 graphs, respectively.

All we need to do to apply the themes is to tell the ggplot2 framework to apply the flat dark theme provided by the ggthemr package, and to make sure that the outer side of the graph is also stylized we use the type = outer parameter, as is shown here. The code should be placed wherever we placed our ggplot2 code for cohesiveness, which is in the functions.R file for this chapter:

library(ggthemr)
ggthemr('flat dark', type = 'outer')

To stylize the Shiny application itself, we send the theme...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image