John Coene
Price - $47.96 | £35.99
Forthcoming on CRC Press
Simple yet thorough, it will let you unlock a whole new world of possibilities.
6 Parts, 24 Chapters
Generalisable learnings
Approachable topics
Plenty of examples
Two languages, multiple use cases
Computations
Use JavaScript for computations
Visualisation
Create your own interactive visualisation packages
Web Development
Immensely improve your shiny apps
Learn to use JavaScript with R—the fun way
R has been catapulted into web browsers: learn their language.
The book will let you improve:
How You Communicate Insights
Your Shiny Applications
Your Interactive Visualisations
Much more
The book is split in 6 major parts each covering a specific aspect of making JavaScript work with R.
Ease into it. The book starts with a recap of the basics, rationales for introducing JavaScript into your workflow and the various ways one can make JavaScript work for R.
Learn how to build your own packages for data visualisation. We start by building a small package to produce inline charts, then build another for a globe visualisation, we then delve into advanced topics such as cross widget communication, responsiveness, and more.
JavaScript for Shiny apps. Learn how to communicate between the R server and the JavaScript front-end to improve the user experience, we display notifications, leverage shiny events, build an image classifier that runs in the browser, and more.
The last practical integration of JavaScript with R: computations. Run computations using Google's V8 engine. Don't reinvent the wheel: learn to leverage external JavaScript libraries to easily bring new functionalities to R.
The book introduces more modern JavaScript development technologies, namely webpack and Node's Package Manager which will allow you to build fast, robust, and maintainable JavaScript for your R packages, and shiny applications.
Closing remarks with motivating comments and tips on where to go next.
Learn to use JavaScript with R—the fun way
I have written many R packages that use JavaScript to create visualisations, provide new functionalities to shiny, and run computations, some of which are listed here.
This book contains much of what I have learned building those packages.
—John Coene
echarts4r on CRAN
Versatile visualisations
cicerone on CRAN
Tours of shiny apps
waiter on CRAN
Loading screens
globe4r on CRAN
3D globe visualisations