Chapter 6 Extension

Popular packages in developing Shiny apps:

• shinydashboard: to create dashboard like UI
• shinythemes: makes it easy to alter the overall appearance of your Shiny applications
• shinyjs: perform common JavaScript operations in Shiny apps using plain R code
• shinyBS: adds several additional Twitter Boostrap components to shiny.
• shinyFiles:extends the functionality of shiny by providing an API for client side access to the server file system.
• shinysky: various UI widgets/components not part of Shiny e.g. alerts, styled buttons
• plotly: create interactive web-based graphs
  • https://plot.ly/r/shiny-tutorial/
  • https://plot.ly/r/shiny-gallery/
• DT: provides filtering, pagination, sorting, and many other features in the tables
• leaflet: JavaScript libraries for interactive maps