index.Rmd

--- 
title: "Introduction to R Shiny"
author: "Nitika K., Adele B., Paul F. H."
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
github-repo: nkandhari/R-shiny-MBP
description: "This is the course mateial for the workshop- `Introduction R Shiny` offered by [Monash Bioinformatics Platform](https://www.monash.edu/researchinfrastructure/bioinformatics)."
---

This workshop material is prepared by the [Monash Bioinformatics Platform](https://www.monash.edu/researchinfrastructure/bioinformatics) on the Shiny library developed by RStudio.

```{r}
library(bookdown)
```

# Prerequisites
Before the tutorial please install R and RStudio,

[Download R](https://cran.rstudio.com/)

[Download RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/)

Then install packages from CRAN and Bioconductor with the following R code:

```{r packages, eval=FALSE}
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("DT")
install.packages("shinydashboard")
```

## Download files

```{r, eval = F}
download.file(
  "https://github.com/nkandhari/R-ShinyIntro-MBP/raw/master/ShinyApps.zip",
  destfile="ShinyApps.zip")
unzip("ShinyApps.zip")
```

Download these files. tutorial.R contains all the code in the “tutorial” link below. During the tutorial, we will be stepping through tutorial.R in RStudio.

## Overview
* Introduction to Shiny

* Structure of a Shiny app

* Reactivity

* Create Shiny App from scratch

* Next steps

## Source code {-}

This book was created in R using the `rmarkdown` and `bookdown` packages!

* [GitHub page](https://github.com/MonashDataFluency/R-ShinyIntro)

## Authors and copyright {-}

This course is developed for the Monash Bioinformatics Platform by Nitika Kandhari, Adele Barugahare and Paul Harrison.

```{r echo=F}
knitr::include_graphics("figs/CC-BY.png")
```

This work is licensed under a [CC BY-4: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The attribution is "Monash Bioinformatics Platform" if copying or modifying these notes.

```{r include=FALSE}
# automatically create a bib database for R packages
knitr::write_bib(c(
  .packages(), 'bookdown', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown'
), 'packages.bib')
```