D4Science Infrastructure

RShiny is a web application framework for R. It can transform R analyses into interactive web applications. It is fully programmed in R and does not require knowledge on HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
A set of examples of interfaces created using RShiny is here: http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/

A Shiny application, executed in the RStudio IDE, starts a service on a developer's machine, which "answers" via http and makes a interactive web application available through the web browser.

A server version of RShiny exists too and can host serveral applications.

In the context of BlueCommons, and according to the discussions at the kick-off meeting I see at least two possible ways to meet IRD and FAO requirements:

1. develop a generic RShiny application to be invoked by TabMan and/or StatMan, which accepts a table or a csv file as input and displays a number of predefined interactive charts. For example, TabMan could invoke this application passing information about the user and the table/file to visualise. The drawback is to have a predefined and generic set of charts and a web application external to TabMan,

2. change the StatMan interface to RShiny and produce Shiny charts for the outputs after each computation. This would require longer time and dedicated effort but would be more effective.

Other suggestions are welcome.

This issue will be managed in the context of ticket #1825