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Introduction to ECharts2Shiny

Xiaodong DENG

February 24, 2017

As an R package, ECharts2Shiny can help embed the interactive charts plotted by ECharts library into our Shiny application. Currently, we can support

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How to Install

From CRAN,

install.packages("ECharts2Shiny")

For the latest development version, please install from GitHub

library(devtools)
install_github("XD-DENG/ECharts2Shiny")

Examples

library(shiny)
library(ECharts2Shiny)

# Prepare sample data for plotting --------------------------
dat <- data.frame(c(1, 2, 3),
                  c(2, 4, 6))
names(dat) <- c("Type-A", "Type-B")
row.names(dat) <- c("Time-1", "Time-2", "Time-3")

# Server function -------------------------------------------
server <- function(input, output) {
  # Call functions from ECharts2Shiny to render charts
  renderBarChart(div_id = "test", grid_left = '1%', direction = "vertical",
                 data = dat)
}

# UI layout -------------------------------------------------
ui <- fluidPage(
  # We MUST load the ECharts javascript library in advance
  loadEChartsLibrary(),
  
  tags$div(id="test", style="width:50%;height:400px;"),
  deliverChart(div_id = "test")
)

# Run the application --------------------------------------
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

(For more examples, please refer to the /examples folder of the repo on GitHub)

List of Examples (up to 2 August 2016)

Note

For each type of charts, you need to prepare the data to be in specific format for EChart2Shiny.

Please refer to the document of each function and the examples for details

License

ECharts2Shiny package itself is under GPL-2.

The ECharts JS library is under BSD license (ECharts).

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.