Setup & Intro

Part 1

A simple schematic of a Shiny app, which includes the User Interface (UI, colored in blue) and the Server (colored in orange). The UI creates what the user will see and interact with, while the server builds the outputs that react and update based on user inputs.

A very basic illustration of a Shiny app

Required Packages

We’ll be loading the following R packages:

library(shiny)

Required Data

No data downloads required for this section

Lecture Materials

Part 1 is broken down into two lessons:

What is Shiny?

lecture 1.1 slides

Setting up your app

lecture 1.2 slides