Tutorial: Create and Customize a Simple R Shiny Dashboard

Data can be very powerful, but it’s useless if you can’t interpret it or navigate through it. For this reason, it’s crucial to have an interactive and understandable visual representation of your data. To achieve this, we frequently use dashboards. Dashboards are the perfect tool for creating coherent visualizations of data for business and scientific applications. In this tutorial we’ll teach you how to build and customize a simple Shiny dashboard.

We'll walk you through the following:

// Importing library(shiny) and library(shinydashboard)
// Creating a server function
// Setting up a dashboardPage() and adding UI components
// Displaying a correlation plot
// Adding basic interactivity to the plot
// Setting up navigation with dashboardSidebar()
// fluidPage()
// Data tables with library(DT)
// Using dashboard skins

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[Stat_Guy]

Thank you so much for this video, this will help me a lot. I hope you keep posting more tutorials on R, this kind of videos has high added value and helps to thousands of R users!

[appsilon_official]

What other kinds of tutorials would you like us to make? Please tell us by replying to this comment.

[esmefranken]

This is a fantastic video, thank you! So well explained and interesting.

[konsmberg]

if you could provide the copy of the code somewhere that would be very helpful!

[duafatima]

quick question, how did you pick your dataset? there is no file path in your code

[caty]

Coming from the web development, I think shiny will that I need for my current dash-boarding project. I want to build an interactive and live atlas containing various maps depicting operations of the departments in my company.
I have got the maps working. Now I am at the stage of making the pages look good. I think I will just use plain bootstrap. I read somewhere that shiny gives an option for this.

[usmanchattha]

Greats tutorial guys ! That’s was really helpful and Captivating till end

[adventurouskidsnetwork]

Something, I've looking for three days. Can't just thank you enough!!!! Keep it up!! BTW, I was wondering if you could teach us about some basics of shiny package. Thank you!!!! :D

[PINOYNEWS]

I really learned a lot from this tutorial

[Kuronoshishi]

Hi, I follow your tutorial for the "cars" part, but the table I got for mtcars does not have row names. Any idea why?

[pushpanjalikumari]

i m not able to see the output when i tried this with another data set

[palashpurkayastha]

Please give the source codes to implement these ourselves. That will be very helpful.

[navolatoorlando]

Hello, I have been using R for a while and now I want to start to use shiny to create environments for the visualization of the data process of the code. I have a simple question that I hope you can shiny allows new data input? imagine I just got a CSV with data can I add this new data to shiny and see all the visualization?

[hirenkakkad]

How can we host this application on our website?

[davidramos]

Probably a stupid question, but can you make a public website or application using shiny? Like having users interact with graphs on the web. Thank you.

[unrulybxite]

This is useful for the sample data that R has already (iris, mtcars, etc.), but it would be more helpful if you could explain how to plot using external data since that's what most of us would be using this for...

[neptne]

Hi!.
How do we use our own data to use it in shiny?

[hirenkakkad]

Very nice video. Awaiting for new videos.

I am having one query. How can we Auto hide sidebar in mobile view when its navigated? I developed an app. But in mobile whenever we navigate, we have to manually hide the sidebar by clicking on the 3lines. Please suggest how to auto hide that?

Thank you

[andgaming]

Can we use both shinydashboard and semantic.dashbard?