What Is a Shiny App?

Shiny is an R package for developing interactive web applications, or apps. Shiny apps are just webpages!

Webpages are made up of two main components.

1. HTML/CSS: what your app looks like (the form)

2. JavaScript: what your app does (the function)

The difference between Shiny apps and regular webpages: Shiny apps are powered by an R session.

Creating a Shiny app

To create a Shiny app, we need:

1. Regular R stuff: writing code to manipulate and analyze data, visualize with graphs, etc…

2. To create a user interface

3. To connect 1 to 2 with reactive logic