Interactive Apps

Mar 15, 2023

New to the ShinyUiEditor: bslib Cards!

The latest version of {shinyuieditor} includes the new card component from {bslib}. In this post, we describe how you can use these cards and a new static-text component to easily organize your app’s content in a visually appealing way

Dec 20, 2022

Announcing new R Shiny UI components

The {bslib} R package recently added new user interface (UI) components, including (full-screen) Cards, Value Boxes, and a responsive column wrapping layout. Start using them today in Shiny, R Markdown, and/or Quarto

Carson Sievert

Joe Cheng speaking at RStudio's conference in 2022

Dec 15, 2022

The Past and Future of Shiny

To celebrate Shiny’s 10th anniversary, let’s talk about how we started and where we’re going

Integrating Dynamic R and Python Models in Tableau Using plumbertableau

Dec 20, 2021

Integrating Dynamic R and Python Models in Tableau Using plumbertableau

The plumbertableau and fastapitableau packages allow you to integrate dynamic R and Python models in Tableau, enhancing your organization’s preferred dashboard tool

Isabella Velásquez

Filip Wästberg, Jesper Ludvigsen, Vilgot Österlund

How To Augment Tableau With R & Python - A Webinar and Case Study from Sweden

Nov 15, 2021

How To Augment Tableau With R & Python - A Webinar and Case Study from Sweden

In an upcoming webinar on November 17th, Solita will showcase how they successfully combined the strengths of RStudio and Tableau at one of Sweden’s largest government agencies

How the "Clusterbuster" Shiny App Helps Hundreds of Doctors and Epidemiologists Battle COVID-19 in the Netherlands

Nov 2, 2021

How the “Clusterbuster” Shiny App Helps Hundreds of Doctors and Epidemiologists Battle COVID-19 in the Netherlands

In this post, we explore the creation and evolution of the Clusterbuster, a Shiny app developed by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. Hundreds of doctors and epidemiologists use the Clusterbuster to gain insight into COVID-19 clusters in the Netherlands

Isabella Velásquez

Screenshot of Tableau visualization and ggviolin plot in a Tableau dashboard

Oct 21, 2021

Embedding Shiny Apps in Tableau Dashboards Using shinytableau

This post introduces and walks through shinytableau, a package that allows you to create dashboard extensions that embed Shiny apps in Tableau. Users can take advantage of R’s powerful visualization and reporting capabilities when working in Tableau dashboards

Isabella Velásquez

Jul 22, 2021

Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest

Three coding best practices from Shiny Contest winners: modules, custom CSS, and reactive organization

A screenshot of an app, showing it in light mode and dark mode

Apr 27, 2021

Weather App Story Pt. 3: Styling

The bslib package allows for extremely easy customization of your Shiny app’s style using the bootstrap css framework. It also allows you to update theming in a running app to create dynamicly styled apps

book

April 2021

Mastering Shiny

Build Interactive Apps, Reports, and Dashboards Powered by R

Hadley Wickham

Shiny Interactive Apps

Barret Schloerke, Carson Sievert

Mar 29, 2021

plumber 1.1.0

{plumber} v1.1.0 is now on CRAN! In this post, we’ll highlight some of the most exciting new features in both the v1.1.0 and v1.0.0 releases, including: parallel endpoint execution, a tidy interface, and request body parsing

Winston Chang, Nick Strayer

Feb 12, 2021

Introducing Shiny App Stories

App Stories are a bit different from the User Showcase: an App Story will center around a Shiny application, but the application will be designed specifically to show off specific features, and it will also include explanations of how to use those features

Carson Sievert, Winston Chang, Barret Schloerke

Feb 1, 2021

Shiny 1.6

Shiny 1.6 is now on CRAN! This release includes significant improvements to theming, caching, accessibility, and more

A plot showing how much faster an app will load with caching

Jan 22, 2021

Weather App Story Pt. 2: Caching

Here we demonstrate how the bindCache() function can greatly speed up a Shiny app with little effort

Jan 4, 2021

Weather App Story Pt. 1: About

Functionality and architecture overview of the Weather Lookup app

Shiny crosstalk Visualization Interactive Apps

Jul 21, 2020

4 Tips to Make Your Shiny Dashboard Faster

Yes, Shiny apps can be fast and scalable. But only if you build them in the right way and use the proper tools

Krystian Igras

book

Interactive Web-Based Data Visualization with R, plotly, and shiny

January 2020

Interactive Web-Based Data Visualization with R, plotly, and shiny

Create interactive web graphics from R with plotly, including linked views, animations, and maps, and embed them in Shiny apps, without having to learn web programming

Carson Sievert

Dec 2, 2019

learnr 0.10.0

learnr 0.10.0: new quiz question types including text boxes and drag-and-drop ranking

Barret Schloerke

Oct 15, 2019

Shiny 1.4.0

Shiny 1.4.0: trailing commas now work in UI functions like div() and span()

Aug 5, 2019

The Shiny Developer Series

The Shiny Developer Series: video interviews with package authors and advanced Shiny techniques

Curtis Kephart

Apr 26, 2019

Shiny v1.3.2

Shiny 1.3.2: reactlog for visually debugging reactivity and faster static file serving

Nov 13, 2018

Shiny 1.2.0: Plot caching

Shiny 1.2.0: plot caching with renderCachedPlot for dramatically improved performance under load

Jun 26, 2018

Shiny 1.1.0: Scaling Shiny with async

Shiny 1.1.0: async programming support via future and promises for better scalability under load

May 10, 2018

leaflet 2.0.0

Barret Schloerke

Mar 29, 2018

DT 0.4: Editing Tables, Smart Filtering, and More

DT 0.4: editable tables, smart filtering, and shift-click row selection for Shiny apps

Nov 17, 2017

pool package on CRAN

pool package: connection pooling for databases in Shiny apps with automatic connection management

Bárbara Borges Ribeiro

Aug 29, 2017

Shiny Dev Center gets a shiny new update

Shiny Dev Center redesigned: clearer learning paths and updated articles for Shiny developers

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Aug 15, 2017

Shiny 1.0.4

Shiny 1.0.4: drag-and-drop file inputs, dynamic tab management, and onStop callbacks

May 18, 2017

shinydashboard 0.6.0

shinydashboard 0.6.0: bookmarkable state for sidebars and new inputs for tracking collapsed state

Bárbara Borges Ribeiro

Apr 5, 2017

Shiny 1.0.1

Shiny 1.0.1 adds reactiveVal() for single reactive values and HTML content in radio buttons and checkboxes

Bárbara Borges Ribeiro

Feb 22, 2017

leaflet 1.1.0

leaflet 1.1.0 adds text labels, shape highlighting, awesome-markers, sf support, custom projections, and viridis palettes

Oct 13, 2016

shinythemes 1.1.1

shinythemes 1.1.1 adds new Bootstrap themes from bootswatch.com and a live theme selector for Shiny apps

Sep 22, 2016

Shiny Server (Pro) 1.4.6

Shiny Server 1.4.6 includes bug fixes and security mitigations; Pro users on SSL/TLS should upgrade for OpenSSL patches

Sep 12, 2016

Shiny 0.14

Shiny 0.14 adds bookmarkable state, notifications, modal dialogs, insertUI/removeUI, and database connection docs

Aug 9, 2016

A New Version of DT (0.2) on CRAN

DT 0.2 adds the Buttons extension, row/column/cell selection, and functions to modify tables without rebuilding

May 17, 2016

flexdashboard: Easy interactive dashboards for R

Introducing flexdashboard: create interactive dashboards with R Markdown, htmlwidgets, and optional Shiny components

RStudio Team

May 6, 2016

Shiny JavaScript Tutorials

New tutorial series on creating custom JavaScript widgets for Shiny using libraries like c3.js, d3.js, and intro.js

May 5, 2016

ShinyDevCon videos now available

Videos from the 2016 Shiny Developer Conference covering reactive programming, modules, gadgets, and debugging

Jan 20, 2016

Shiny 0.13.0

Shiny 0.13.0 introduces Gadgets for interactive tools, HTML templates, modules for managing complexity, and stack traces

Oct 29, 2015

Shiny Developer Conference | Stanford University | January 2016

Announcing the first Shiny Developer Conference at Stanford, January 2016, for developers ready to build performant, robust Shiny apps

Jul 15, 2015

Article Spotlight: Persistent data storage in Shiny apps

Article spotlight: Dean Attali explains how to save Shiny app data to local files, databases, and cloud storage for persistence

Jun 24, 2015

Leaflet: Interactive web maps with R

Create interactive web maps in R with leaflet: markers, polygons, popups, GeoJSON support, and seamless Shiny integration

Jun 24, 2015

DT: An R interface to the DataTables library

DT brings DataTables to R: sortable, filterable, paginated HTML tables with column formatting and Shiny integration

Jun 24, 2015

d3heatmap: Interactive heat maps

d3heatmap creates interactive heat maps with D3.js: zoom by dragging, highlight rows/columns on click, hover to see values

Jun 22, 2015

New Shiny cheat sheet and video tutorial

New free Shiny video tutorial (2.5 hours) and updated cheat sheet covering app architecture, reactivity, inputs, layouts, and CSS

Jun 16, 2015

Shiny 0.12: Interactive Plots with ggplot2

Shiny 0.12 adds interactive plots for base graphics and ggplot2: capture mouse clicks, hovers, and brushes to select points

Apr 14, 2015

Interactive time series with dygraphs

dygraphs brings interactive time series charts to R: pan, zoom, highlight, annotate, and embed in R Markdown or Shiny

RStudio Team

Apr 7, 2015

Design patterns for action buttons

New Shiny article: five design patterns for action buttons using observeEvent() and eventReactive()

Jan 23, 2015

Shiny 0.11, themes, and dashboard

Shiny 0.11 migrates to Bootstrap 3, adds improved sliders, passwordInput(), observeEvent(), plus new shinythemes and shinydashboard packages

Dec 18, 2014

htmlwidgets: JavaScript data visualization for R

Introducing htmlwidgets: bring JavaScript visualization libraries to R. Works in console, R Markdown, and Shiny

RStudio Team

Oct 13, 2014

ggvis 0.4

ggvis 0.4 adds layer_boxplots(), better error handling, and more reliable interactive graphics with dynamic data

Oct 2, 2014

Shiny 0.10.2

Shiny 0.10.2 adds single-file apps (app.R), progress bars, IE 8/9 file uploads, and upgrades DataTables to 1.10

Sep 8, 2014

Track how visitors use your Shiny app with Google Analytics

New article: track visitors and usage patterns in your Shiny apps using Google Analytics and jQuery

Aug 1, 2014

Shiny 0.10.1

Shiny 0.10.1 adds full Unicode support on Windows, ‘user/repo’ syntax for runGitHub(), and inline output options

Jul 21, 2014

Master interactive documents at the Shiny Dev Center

New Shiny Dev Center articles: create interactive documents and slideshows by embedding Shiny in R Markdown

Jun 30, 2014

Shiny cheat sheet

New Shiny cheat sheet: quick reference for app structure, reactive foundations, layouts, and deployment

Jun 23, 2014

Introducing ggvis

Introducing ggvis: grammar of graphics meets interactivity. Create reactive, browser-rendered plots with Shiny integration

Jun 20, 2014

Shiny 0.10

Shiny 0.10 adds interactive document support, flowLayout/splitLayout, validate/need for errors, and server-side selectize

Jun 19, 2014

Interactive documents: An incredibly easy way to use Shiny

Interactive documents: embed Shiny widgets in R Markdown for live, interactive reports—no separate server.R/ui.R needed

May 28, 2014

Comment sections and help instructions at the Shiny Dev Center

Shiny Dev Center adds Disqus comments on all articles and a new guide on getting help with Shiny