1. Shiny for RStudio Exploring Web Mapping Technology
With Isnardo Gandarilla & Ian Amitin

2. General Overview
“RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.”
Basically, it’s a scripting program with its own programming language.
A Shiny App delivers an R script to audience in a format that does not require the audience to know R.
However, you definitely need to know how to write script in R to even begin to try to plot a map using Shiny.

3. General Overview
To use Shiny, you need to how to build the app you have in mind using an R script.
You also need some type of web server to service the app for display on the web.

4. Documentation
Go to for a 2.5 hour tutorial video on how to use Shiny in RStudio. You can skip to specific sections of the tutorial using the links provided on the page.

5. Documentation
A map-specific tutorial is available at:

6. Documentation
To get started learning RStudio you can access the free Data Camp tutorial:

7. Basic Functionality Table Data Manipulation: Joining Field Calculation
Column Shape Manipulation
Shapefiles Store Data in a .dbf
Spatial Data Manipulation:
Points
Lines
Polygons
Rasters
Special Custom Objects (e.g. datacubes, networks, etc)
Works Cited: Jackson Voelkel

8. Advanced Functionality
Plotting Vector Data
Classification
Custom Colors
Raster Data
Mathematical calculation (like Raster Calculator in ArcMap)
Raster editing (clipping, mosaicking)
Reclassification
Works Cited: Jackson Voelkel

9. Shiny Functionality The Map Widget
Allows you to create a map using the “Leaflet” package. Provides the following functionality:
Map tiles (Basemaps)
Markers / Circle Markers
Polygons / Rectangles
Lines
Popups
GeoJSON / TopoJSON
Raster Images
Color Legends
Layer Groups and Layer Control

10. Programming Language
You need to know R to use Shiny, as Shiny is just a package available in R.
JavaScript would be helpful too.

11. Interactive Map Example
Jackson Voelkel’s Interactive Map

12. Mash-Ups!
Leaflet D3
Dygraphs
Numerous HTML and CSS Themes.

13. Extras The ‘rgeos’ library in R is your friend! Learn R first.
Are you ready for Shiny? … We were not!