Incorporating Shiny into Dashboards

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

Elaine McVey

Director of Data Science

Why should I add Shiny? Or not?

Why

• Interactivity
• Lightweight

Why not

• Complication
• Hosting

Why should I add Shiny? Or not?

Why

• Interactivity
• Lightweight

Why not

• Complication
• Hosting

Why should I add Shiny? Or not?

Why

• Interactivity
• Lightweight

Why not

• Complication
• Hosting

Why should I add Shiny? Or not?

Why

• Interactivity
• Lightweight

Why not

• Complication
• Hosting

If not a Shiny app, then what?

A flexdashboard with Shiny is an interactive RMarkdown document

Making it shiny

runtime: shiny

Let's practice!

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard