Coordinated Multiple Views: Interacting & Brushing

Materials for class on Monday, April 8, 2019

Contents

Tweet(s) of the day:

Announcing the Winners of the 1st Shiny Contest
136 submissions, 4 winners, 6 runners-up, and 21 honorable mentions.
See some of the great work shared by the #shiny developer community. https://t.co/RJZbZbo2aY pic.twitter.com/EoaK440CQQ

— RStudio (@rstudio) April 5, 2019

🎉A first draft of my new book, “Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny”, is now available! 🎉https://t.co/rCsZgwIo2d

For those of you familiar with the plotly book, there is a ton of new content, feedback welcome!https://t.co/TmS8Tk2Wjn pic.twitter.com/1e9hWFsAlU

— Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) April 4, 2019

This is an excellent resource if you decide to use plotly for your project!

🎅 Major announcement for #rstats shiny addicts🎅:
Excited to officially introduce RinteRface, a collection of open-source HTML templates for #shiny and more 🦄
Thanks ??? for joining the project 🔥https://t.co/IAX76FEz1k??? ??? ??? ??? pic.twitter.com/WCvuAxJiI4

— David Granjon (@divadnojnarg) November 28, 2018

RinteRface includes several web frameworks as R packages including: shinydashboardPlus, bs4Dash, argonDash.

Slides

• Week 10: Interactions and Week 11: Views by Alexander Lex, CS-5630 / CS-6630 Visualization for Data Science

Hands-on Class

We’ll heavily use our RStudio Cloud project for sample Shiny apps. It has been updated from last class so its highly recommended you delete your previous version and recreate a new project.

1. Review Reactivity: Reactivity Overview by RStudio

Garrett Grohlmund’s Introduction to Reactivity in Shiny

2. Shiny enabled flexdashboard⊕
   
   

Example: Kyle Walker’s Neighborhood Diversity App by / GitHub

3. Brusing & interaction:

• JJ Alaire’s flexdashboard shiny-enabled brushing, John Coene’s echarts4r, crosstalk,echarts4r interactivity is based on crosstalk, e.g., see this brushing/slider tutorial.
  
  or plotlySpecifically see Chapter 15-17 of Carson Sievert’s book.
  
  

4. shinydashboard

• Omayma Said’s Intro to Shiny WorkshopSee 000c-omaayma-shiny-workshop folder in our Rstudio cloud shiny project.
  
  

5. Helper functions: dragulaR, shinyWidgets / shiny demo, and waiter