In-class Exercise 5: Build a Shiny App!

1. Basic of Shiny

These are the 3 essential parts of building a Shiny app.

• UI interface for us to control the layout, appearance, and type of controls of the app. (This is what users will click or choose)

• Server function for us to build the output display in the forms of plot, text, table, image etc.

• ShinyApp is to create to shiny app object.

2. Hands-on Practice

We have learned how to create a simple Shiny app that allows users to choose the subject and bins of the histogram to be displayed.

This app is also published on this website.