Dashboard examples and technologies

[geneorama]

Document various dashboard options within shiny

[geneorama]

Here's a nice thumbnail summary of difference between Shiny, shinydashboard, and flexdashboard, which are all RStudio products.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37992147/r-shiny-which-hammer-straight-shiny-flexdashboard-or-shinydashboard

Shiny

Shiny is the base for any application development. Start here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/ for tutorials, documentation, examples, reference etc.

Also visit RStudio's extensive shiny examples: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples

shinydashboard

The R Studio default is https://rstudio.github.io/shinydashboard/

Bus example is very good for showing Shiny widgets interacting with a map,
https://gallery.shinyapps.io/086-bus-dashboard/
source: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples/tree/master/086-bus-dashboard

flexdashboard

Flexdashboard is "just a markdown doc that looks like a dashboard", see: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/

Also, see https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/lesson-12.html for more information on flex dashboards and how to render, and a link to work in RStudio Cloud.

[geneorama]

shinydashboardPlus

Add lots of new modern buttons, widgets, and boxes to shiny!
https://rinterface.github.io/shinydashboardPlus/

note: to run examples it requires styler, shinyAce, shinyWidgets, shinyEffects, and shinyjqui

Actually, there are many related projects in their user on Github https://github.com/RinteRface

and they have a page about their company https://rinterface.com/, which links to their bootstrap 4 based shinydashbaord, which is open source.

[geneorama]

The City of Pittsburg has an amazing dashboard example, built entirely in R and completely open source

https://github.com/CityofPittsburgh/burghs-eye-view
https://pittsburghpa.shinyapps.io/BurghsEyeView/

It's filterable, and with a few clicks you can get here: