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What makes R Shiny so shiny? A step-by-step introduction to interactive dashboards in R

What makes R Shiny so shiny? A step-by-step introduction to interactive dashboards in R

This workshop was presented at the virtual Ninth Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference on June 5, 2021.

Slides are provided in the file cssc-2021-r-shiny-workshop-slides.pdf.

Purpose

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the basics of creating interactive visualizations and dashboards in R Shiny.

The core concepts of Shiny are demonstrated in a series of dashboards themed around horror films using data provided by IMDb.

Data

The raw datasets used in this workshop are available from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website. These data are available for personal and non-commercial use (see website for more details).

Pre-processed data (downloaded June 5, 2021) are provided in the data directory.

Running the scripts

First, update your packages and install all required packages by running 0_required_packages.R.

Scripts 1 (1_download-data.R) and 2 (2_process_data.R) are optional, as the necessary data are already provided in the data directory. Only run these scripts if you want the latest data from IMDB (note that these are very large files, so the scripts may take a long time to run).

Script 3 through 7 are self-contained R Shiny dashboards. Each is more complex than the last.