Shiny Gadgets
A package for R that helps you create interactive tools based on the Shiny web framework, that assist in data analysis tasks.
Shiny apps are usually used for communicating results to other people.
Shiny gadgets are used from the R console during data analysis, to assist in tedious or iterative tasks.
Installing
devtools::install_github("rstudio/shinygadgets")
Example
TODO
Compiling Less source to CSS
You generally don't need to do this. This build step is only needed if you want to contribute to the development of the package by modifying the built-in CSS styles.
One-time setup
Prerequisite: You must have Node.js installed.
# Install the grunt command if necessary
which grunt || sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
# Install dependencies
cd tools
npm install
Building
cd tools
grunt
Building automatically when .less files change
cd tools
grunt watch