Setup

Prerequisites

No prior Shiny experience necessary for this course! However, we do assume that participants have the following:

• R / RStudio installed & a basic familiarity with the language

• A GitHub profile & git installed / configured

• You have the required R packages installed. You can install / update them all at once by running:

install.packages(pkgs = c( "tidyverse", "shiny", "shinydashboard", "shinyWidgets", "shinycssloaders", "markdown", "DT", "leaflet", "bslib", "thematic", "fresh", "sass", "reactlog", "shinytest2", "palmerpenguins", "lterdatasampler", "gapminder"))

• (Optional, but recommended) Install the Let’s get color blind Google Chrome extension

Please see the MEDS Installation Guide for more detailed instructions on installing the above software.

Reference code

We’ll be building / playing with a number of small apps and dashboards throughout this workshop. You can reference the complete source code for each of them on GitHub.

We’ll be creating our own GitHub repositories to house our apps, so you do not need to fork this repo (unless you want to, of course).