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
  • DT: provides filtering, pagination, sorting, and many other features in the tables
  • leaflet: JavaScript libraries for interactive maps