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title: "How to Build a Shiny Application from Scratch"
author: "Hadrien@rstudio.com"
date: "2019-08-16T19:22:40Z"
tags: [Shiny, Package, Web Applications, R Programming, Data Analysis, Visualization]
link: "https://bookdown.org/hadrien/how_to_build_a_shiny_app_from_scratch/"
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How to Build a Shiny Application from Scratch [...] Shiny is a powerful R package which allows you to create interactive web applications using the R programming language. It is particularly useful for creating applications that run on data and include some sort of data analysis or visualization. In addition to leveraging the power of R and its thousands of packages, one of the big benefits of shiny is the ease of developing applications using R only. Although it is possible to incorporate more traditional web design languages such as custom CSS or Javascript into your shiny application, it ...
