How to build an analytics dashboard with R in less than 1 hour

What you will learn

In less than one hour, this micro-course will teach you how to build an analytics dashboard with R that has the following features:

• Reactive value boxes
• Interactive visualizations
• Sortable table
• Light/Dark mode
• Usage of Shiny modules.

Prerequisites

This course assumes that you are already familiar with the basics of {ggplot2} and {dplyr}. Also, you should be familiar with reactive variables in {shiny}. But you will need only the very basics of reactive variables. If you understand the following line of code you are good to go:

my_variable <- reactive({ data_set |> summarise(across(c(col1, col2), sum)) })

In this course, we will also use Shiny modules. But we will work without modules first and then modularize our code later on. This way, you don't need to know Shiny modules yet and will learn them along the way.

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