Dean Attali - R-Shiny consultant

Shiny tips & tricks for improving your apps and solving common problems

Posted on August 29, 2016

This document contains a collection of various Shiny tricks that I commonly use or that I know many people ask about. Each link contains a complete functional Shiny app that demonstrates how to perform a non trivial task in Shiny. The complete up-to-date list of tips, along with all the... [Read More]

Building Shiny apps - an interactive tutorial

Posted on December 7, 2015

If you use this material in a classroom, I’d appreciate if you link back to my site! If you want tutoring/training in Shiny or need help with building a Shiny app, I’m available for hire. Shiny is a package from RStudio that can be used to build... [Read More]

Persistent data storage in Shiny apps

Posted on July 1, 2015

This article is also published on RStudio’s Shiny Articles Shiny apps often need to save data, either to load it back into a different session or to simply log some information. However, common methods of storing data from R may not work well with Shiny. Functions like... [Read More]

Mimicking a Google Form with a Shiny app

Posted on June 14, 2015

In this post we will walk through the steps required to build a shiny app that mimicks a Google Form. It will allow users to submit responses to some input fields, save their data, and allow admins to view the submitted responses. Like many of my other posts, it may... [Read More]

How to get your very own RStudio Server and Shiny Server with DigitalOcean

Posted on May 9, 2015

If you want help setting up your Shiny Server, a one-on-one walk-through of these instructions, or just general consultation about using Shiny Server, I’m available for hire. If you’ve always wanted to have an RStudio Server of your own so that you can access R from anywhere,... [Read More]

Introducing shinyjs: perform common JavaScript operations in Shiny apps using plain R code

Posted on April 23, 2015

shinyjs is my second R package that managed to find its way past the CRAN review process. It lets you perform common useful JavaScript operations in Shiny applications without having to know any JavaScript. Important note The package has improved a lot since writing this post. I highly... [Read More]

Beautiful Jekyll - how to build a site in minutes

A plug-n-play template to easily get anyone a free nice looking site (same theme as this one) quickly

Posted on March 12, 2015

Since this site went live a few days ago, I had many people ask me how I made it. Like a great politician, I will avoid that question almost entirely with a completely different answer: The core template that runs this website is available for anyone to use. I called... [Read More]

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