Easy Dashboards with R Markdown

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# Easy Dashboards with R Markdown
### <a href="https://yihui.org">Yihui Xie</a>
### 2018/03/27 @ Omaha R User Group

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# About me

- I work for RStudio (almost exclusively on open source)

- Authored a few books
    - 2015, _Dynamic Documents with R and knitr_
    - 2016, _bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown_
    - 2017, _blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown_

- and some R packages (**knitr**, **bookdown**, **blogdown**, **xaringan**, **tinytex**, **animation**, **DT**, **tufte**, **formatR**, **fun**, **xfun**, **mime**, **highr**, **servr**, and **Rd2roxygen**, etc.); and co-authored a few others (e.g., **shiny**, **rmarkdown**, and **leaflet**)

.center[![:image 180px, Yihui](https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/163582?s=200)]

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# R Markdown

### [rmarkdown.rstudio.com](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com)

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# One Format to Rule Them All

- All computing languages

- R, Python, C++, Julia, C
    
    - Fortran, SQL, Bash, Stan
    
    - JavaScript, CSS, SAS, Perl, Haskell, Go, ...

- All output formats

- Single documents: HTML, PDF, Word, RTF, ODT, dashboards, journal articles, ...
    
    - Presentations: PowerPoint, LaTeX Beamer, ioslides, Slidy, reveal.js, remark.js, ...
    
    - Multiple documents: books, websites, ...

- Demo (documents, presentations, Python, publishing to RStudio Connect)

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# Dashboards

- Use R Markdown to publish a group of related data visualizations as a dashboard.

- Support for a wide variety of components including htmlwidgets; base, lattice, and grid graphics; tabular data; gauges and value boxes; and text annotations.

- Flexible and easy to specify row and column-based layouts. Components are intelligently re-sized to fill the browser and adapted for display on mobile devices.

- Storyboard layouts for presenting sequences of visualizations and related commentary.

- Optionally use Shiny to drive visualizations dynamically.

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# Getting started

```r
install.packages("flexdashboard")
```

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# Examples

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# Thanks!

- Slides: [bit.ly/2018-dashboard](https://bit.ly/2018-dashboard); examples: [bit.ly/2018-dashboard-examples](http://bit.ly/2018-dashboard-examples)

- RStudio

- Homepage: https://rstudio.com
    
    - Twitter: [@rstudio](https://twitter.com/rstudio); Github: [@rstudio](https://github.com/rstudio)

- Me

- Homepage https://yihui.org
    
    - Twitter [@xieyihui](https://twitter.com/xieyihui); Github [@yihui](https://github.com/yihui)

- More questions: [StackOverflow](https://yihui.org/en/2017/08/so-gh-email/), or RStudio Community (https://community.rstudio.com).