Part 66 Interactive Dashboards with flexdashboard
Set up the work space:
# Load required packages
library(tidyverse) # loads ggplot2 and other tidyverse packages
# Set a default figure size
knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.width = 5, fig.height = 4, fig.align = "center")66.1 Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand the difference between a data dashboard and traditional data story
- Understand when a dashboard should be used
- Identify what elements of your dataset should be included in the dashboard
- Use flexdashboard to create simple interactive dashboards in R Markdown
66.2 Resources
Here are some good references for flexdashboard:
- Official Flexdashboard page
- The Flexdashboard Gallary
- Layouts for Flexdashboard
- Full reference for Flexdashboard functionality
- Example from NHS Case Study