Building Dashboards with shinydashboard

Overview

Learn to create interactive dashboards with R using the powerful shinydashboard package. Create dynamic and engaging visualizations for your audience.

Learn to create an interactive dashboard using the shinydashboard package in R. This course teaches you how to use shinydashboard in R to create a dynamic and interactive dashboard. You will cover the ins and outs of shinydashboard and learn about good UI/UX practices. You will first build a shinyApp and then graduate to building a shinydashboard. Then, you learn how to include interactive elements with hover-over effects. Finally, you will explore how to tweak your design elements of a shinydashboard using CSS code and more.

Syllabus

ShinyApps

Before you build a shinydashboard, you will first need to understand what a shinyApp is. In this chapter, you will learn what a shinyApp is, and learn what goes into a shinyApp. At the end of this chapter, you will be able to render your own shinyApp.

Basics of a shinydashboard

In the previous chapter, you learned about shiny apps. In this chapter, you will realize that a shinydashboard is really just another shiny app but with more tweakable features. The same outputs and inputs discussed in the previous chapter can be used in exactly the same manner here. You will then learn to carry out some simple wire-framing for a dashboard, during which you can decide where to position outputs and inputs in the dashboard.

Interactive plots and geospatial maps

In this chapter, you will learn to further enhance your shinydashboard by inserting interactive elements. These will include graphs, geospatial maps, and tables that dashboard users can interact with in real-time.

Adding design elements and improving UI/UX

Now that you are familiar with shinydashboard, we can now add design elements. We will be able to change background colors, modify box dimensions and so on. We will also discuss some basic principles of good UI/UX. Finally, we will show how statuses and CSS formatting can be utilized.