I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, every tip I provide will be followed by an actual code... [Read More]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

The R community is generally very fond of open-source-ness and the idea of releasing all code to the public. Writing packages has become such an easy experience now that Hadley’s devtools is so powerful, and as a result there are new packages being released by useRs every single day.... [Read More]