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Case Studies: Building Web Applications with Shiny in R

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Updated 01/2025

Practice your Shiny skills while building some fun Shiny apps for real-life scenarios!

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Course Description

After learning the basics of using Shiny to build web applications, this course takes you to the next level by putting your newly acquired skills into practice. You'll get experience developing fun and realistic Shiny apps for different common use cases, such as using Shiny to explore a dataset, generate a customized plot, and even create a word cloud. With all this practice and new knowledge, you will be well-equipped to develop Shiny apps for your own use.

Prerequisites

Building Web Applications with Shiny in R

1

Shiny review

Introduction

Simple text

Formatted text

Adding structure to your app

Inputs and outputs

Adding inputs

Adding placeholders for outputs

Constructing output objects

Reactivity 101

Reactivity: simple reactive variable

Reactivity: composed reactive variable

Reactive contexts

2

Make the perfect plot using Shiny

Make the perfect plot using Shiny

Explore the Gapminder data

More exploration of the Gapminder data

Adding simple inputs to modify a plot

Add a plot title: text input

Change the point size: numeric input

Fit a smooth curve: checkbox input

More input types

Add colours to your plot: radio buttons

Add a continent selector: select input

Add a year filter: numeric slider input

Advanced features to improve your plot

Add colours to your plot: color input

Making your plot larger

Make your plot interactive

3

Explore a dataset interactively with Shiny

Explore a dataset with Shiny

See the data in a table

Filter by life expectancy

Select a continent to view

Allow "All" continents to be viewed

More ways to view data: plot and download

Plot the data

Download the filtered data

Reactive variables

Reactive variables reduce code duplication

More benefits of reactive variables

Visual enhancements

Make the table interactive

Place different outputs on different tabs

Add CSS to modify the look of the app

4

Create your own word cloud in Shiny

Word clouds in Shiny

Word cloud Shiny app

Change the word cloud parameters

Add a layout

Adding word sources

Use your own words

Upload a text file (ui)

Upload a text file (server)

Combining all the word sources

Choose the data source (ui)

Choose the data source (server)

Conditionally show or hide required inputs

Fine tune the reactivity

Don't continuously create new word clouds

Reactivity: effects of isolation

Create a new word cloud on demand

Wrap-up: Go and make your own apps!

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Noah R.

21 days

The exercises were direct and simple to follow along with; also the instructor's approach and formatting to building quality, professional shiny apps has been my favorite I've seen thus far on DataCamp.

Nicolas F.

5 months

This course gives you the opportunity to practice what you have been learning about Shiny.

Mohamed H.

8 months

Excellent course to understand the fundamental concepts and structures of R-Shiny. Well organized and delivered. Thanks, Dean

Marco V.

9 months

Excellent application of multiple shiny concepts. Practical approach and very clearly explained

Jiri B.

over 1 year

I like to watch teachers. Presentations with only voices are impersonal and reserved.

"The exercises were direct and simple to follow along with; also the instructor's approach and formatting to building quality, professional shiny apps has been my favorite I've seen thus far on DataCamp."

Noah R.

"This course gives you the opportunity to practice what you have been learning about Shiny."

Nicolas F.

"Excellent course to understand the fundamental concepts and structures of R-Shiny. Well organized and delivered. Thanks, Dean"

Mohamed H.

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