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Dan Toomey
Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Creating a Shiny dashboard


Shiny is a web application framework for R. It does not require the user to code HTML. There are normally two sets of code: the server and the user interface (UI). Both sets of code work on top of a Shiny server. A Shiny server can reside on one of your machines or in the cloud (via several hosting companies).

The Shiny server code set deals with accessing data, computing results, obtaining direction from the user, and interacting with other server code set to change results. The UI code set deals with layout of the presentation.

For example, if you had an application that produced a histogram of data the server set would obtain the data and produce results, display the results, and interact with the user to change the result—for example, it might change the number of buckets or range of data being displayed. The UI code set would strictly be concerned with layout.

Shiny code does not run under Jupyter. You can develop the coding using RStudio. RStudio is an integrated...

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Published in: Oct 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785880070

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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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