Building a shiny dashboard
Your shiny web application can be drawn as a dashboard. Translating a column shiny app to a dashboard version requires only small amounts of effort when you have the shinydashboard package installed. This recipe's goal is to introduce you to how to combine shiny and shinydashboard packages to design a web application within the dashboard format.
Getting ready
Besides plotly, Ecdat, and dplyr packages, we will also need the shinydashboard package:
if(!require(shinydashboard)){install.packages('shinydashboard')}
if(!require(plotly)){install.packages('plotly')}
if(!require(Ecdat)){install.packages('Ecdat')}
if(!require(dplyr)){install.packages('dplyr')}The shiny package is still a requirement. Once all these are ready, we can go on and design a dashboard.
How to do it...
Instead of using shiny functions, the dashboards made by this recipe will greatly rely on functions designated by the shinydashboard package instead. The logic beneath the shinydashboard package is very...
