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How to build beautiful GUI’s with R
Welcome back! R is an awesome programming language that’s used heavily for data processing / data science tasks, but did you know you can build out GUI’s using R? Well, you actually can! With a package called RShiny you can build out GUI’s in native R, giving you the ability of developing front-end’s for your data applications. Whenever I begin looking at GUI frameworks, I always look at completed projects with that given framework, RShiny’s website actually showcases a gallery of different projects that were completed with this framework:
If you want to see a full list of this gallery, here is a link to this website:
I’ve personally built out a few GUI’s with R and have had some amazing results, although none of them were perfect, you can essentially customize everything about your front-end. Here are a few of my favorite R GUI’s (made by others) and the source code as well:
