Digital Infrastructures for Research 2016 - Workshop: Visualising Operational Informatics Data Using R
Dr. Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH & Connie Zabarovskaya, MBA, MITM
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Washington University in St. Louis
Hands-on rCharts
Hands-on Shiny Dashboard
This repository contains R script and data files, and PDF version of the slides used in the workshop at DI4R 2016 Conference in Krakow, Poland on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. If you have any questions please submit an issue to this repo.
The R scripts can be run inside RStudio, however you must have all the necessary R packages installed.
While getting ready for the tutorial is optional, it will allow you to follow the instructors during the tutorial and perform the hands-on exercises. The installation steps below will save you time during the tutorial if you have any problems or issues with the installation please let us know.
- Download and Install R: http://cran.wustl.edu/. It may be best to have the latest version of R (or at least 3.0.3), for all libraries to work properly
- Download and install R-Studio from this web link: https://www.rstudio.com/ide/
- Install shiny and shinydashboard packages from within R (or R-Studio)
- Install rCharts from github using the devtools package (see more info here: http://ramnathv.github.io/rCharts/)
We would like to thank developers of the following products for the opportunity to use their great tools:
- RStudio team - Shiny and shinydashboard packages
- Ramnath Vaidyanathan - rCharts package