11.1 What is Shiny?

A web application framework for R to turn analyses into interactive web applications. What does that mean?

• The userinterface is a webpage
• On this webpage you can manipulate things
• Behind the webpage there is a computer (your computer or a server)
• That computer/server runs R and your r-script
• When you change something on the webpage, the information is send to the computer
• Computer runs the script with the new inputs (input functions)
• Computer sends back outputs to the webpage (output functions)