{"id":551,"date":"2014-07-26T03:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T03:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kourentzes.com\/forecasting\/?p=551"},"modified":"2014-11-11T01:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T01:16:39","slug":"experimenting-with-shiny-for-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kourentzes.com\/forecasting\/2014\/07\/26\/experimenting-with-shiny-for-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with Shiny for R"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shiny<\/a> is a web application framework for R. The idea is simple: deploy R code in webpages. This might prove useful when user interaction is required, for instance to design and deploy forecasting experiments that need human participants.<\/p>\n

I gave it a try to see how easy is it to build a demo. Assuming your R skills are ok, then using shiny should be straightforward. It took me a couple of hours starting from zero to get a somewhat complex example for forecasting using MAPA, for which there is already an R package<\/a>.<\/p>\n