Awesome Shiny Extensions
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Awesome Shiny Extensions
A curated list of awesome R and Python packages offering extended UI or server components to the web framework Shiny.
Your contribution is welcomed. Please create a pull request or issue to add packages to the list.
- Inspired by: awesome-react-components and awesome-rshiny.
- Please send pull requests: contributing guide and code of conduct.
- A special thanks to all the package authors for making the world a better place!
Contents
- Theming
- UI Components
- Bootstrap
- File Input
- Special Input
- Loader
- Feedback / Alert / Notification
- Walkthrough / Tooltip / Help
- Clipboard
- Color Picker
- Editor
- Chat
- Table
- Drawers
- Drag and Drop
- Text
- Image / Audio / Video
- Icon Font
- Image Comparison
- Code Diff
- Calendar
- Notebooks
- Animation Effects
- i18n
- React
- Vue.js
- Advanced Interactivity
- Visualization
- Frameworks
- Backend
- Deploy
- Developer Tools
- Miscellaneous
- Shiny for Python
Theming
An awesome Shiny app often looks different from the default Bootstrap theme.
Generic Theming
- shinythemes - Bootswatch themes (Bootstrap 3) for Shiny.
- shiny.semantic - Fomantic UI (formerly Semantic UI) for Shiny.
- shiny.fluent - Fluent UI for Shiny apps.
- shiny.blueprint - Palantir's Blueprint for Shiny apps.
- shinymaterial - Material Design for Shiny with Materialize.css.
- shiny.webawesome - Web Awesome component library for Shiny.
- shinyUIkit - UIkit API for Shiny.
- fullPage - Single page styles for Shiny apps.
- shinybulma - Bulma.io for Shiny.
- shinyChakraUI - Chakra UI for Shiny.
- shinyMetroUi - Metro 4 UI for Shiny.
- shinyNextUI - NextUI for Shiny.
- gridlayout - Build dashboard-style layouts for Shiny and R Markdown using CSS Grid.
- flexlayout - A responsive three-column layout for Shiny. Creates up-to three-column layout where the left and right columns collapse into offcanvas elements on tablets and mobile devices.
- calcite - Bindings to the Calcite Design System JavaScript component library.
- muiMaterial - Material UI for Shiny apps and Quarto.
- shiny.tailwind - Tailwind CSS for Shiny apps.
- shinyGovstyle - Custom GOV.UK style inputs for Shiny.
- fomantic.plus - Extra Fomantic UI components for shiny.semantic.
- lcars - Star Trek aesthetic for Shiny with custom UI components.
- shinyds - Shiny bindings for the Designsystemet component library.
- argonR - Argon Bootstrap 4 UI components for Shiny apps.
Dashboard Theming
- shinydashboard - Shiny dashboarding framework based on AdminLTE 2.
- shinydashboardPlus - Additional AdminLTE 2 components for shinydashboard.
- gentelellaShiny - Bootstrap 3 Gentelella theme for Shiny dashboards.
- semantic.dashboard - Fomantic UI for Shiny dashboards.
- bs4Dash - Bootstrap 4 Shiny dashboards using AdminLTE 3.
- argonDash - Bootstrap 4 Argon template for Shiny dashboards.
- tablerDash - Tabler dashboard template for Shiny with Bootstrap 4.
- shidashi - A Shiny dashboard template system using AdminLTE 3 template.
- bs4Dashkit - Branding, theme application, and navigation utilities for bs4Dash dashboards.
- flexdashboard - R Markdown format for flexible dashboards.
Mobile Theming
- miniUI - Widgets and layouts for Shiny apps working on small screens. Designed for creating Shiny Gadgets.
- shinyMobile - Theming Shiny apps with Framework7, a full featured HTML framework for building iOS & Android apps.
Theme Customization
- bslib - Tools for theming Shiny and R Markdown from R via Bootstrap (3 or 4) Sass.
- fresh - Create fresh themes for use in shiny & shinydashboard applications and flexdashboard documents.
- Rnightly - An R wrapper of the JavaScript library Nightly.
- linne - Write CSS in R.
- designer - Shiny UI prototype builder allowing drag and drop UI components before saving the equivalent R code.
- gfonts - Offline Google Fonts for Markdown and Shiny.
- cascadess - Style-pronoun utilities for applying CSS to htmltools and Shiny tags.
- corazon - Apply colorffy gradients to Shiny elements.
- sass - Compile Sass for dynamic style sheets.
UI Components
Frontend UI components for special input/output types.
Bootstrap
- bsplus - Bootstrap 3 addons for Shiny and R Markdown (collapsible elements, accordion panels, accordion-sidebar sets, tooltips, popovers, modals, carousels).
- bsutils - UI utilities for Bootstrap 5 and Shiny.
- litter - Lit components for Shiny.
- shinyWidgets - Bootstrap 3 custom widgets for Shiny (switches, checkboxes, sweet alerts, slider text, knob inputs, select pickers, search bar, dropdown buttons).
- shinyBS - Bootstrap 3 components for Shiny (alerts, tooltips, popovers, modals, collapsible panels, button upgrades).
- shinyLP - Bootstrap 3 landing pages for Shiny apps.
- shinypanels - Shiny layout with collapsible panels.
- slickR - Carousels for Shiny apps using slick.js.
- spsComps - Additional Bootstrap 3 custom UI components (gallery, panels, buttons, animation and more) and additional Shiny server components (exception catch, validation, etc.).
- card.pro - Lightweight modern and responsive card component for Shiny.
- inshiny - Compact inline widgets for Shiny apps.
- shinyGizmo - Custom UI components and input widgets for Shiny applications.
- gridstackeR - R wrapper for gridstack.js to create draggable and resizable grid layouts.
- dockViewR - Layout manager widget for R and Shiny apps.
- resizableSplitLayout - Resizable split layout module for Shiny.
- glasstabs - Animated glass-style tabs and multi-select filter for Shiny.
- dipsaus - Custom Shiny input widgets including styled buttons, compound inputs, file/directory inputs, alerts, and progress indicators.
- bs4cards - Generate Bootstrap 4 cards for Shiny and R Markdown.
File Input
- shinyFiles - A server-side file system viewer for Shiny.
- directoryInput - Shiny input widget for selecting directories.
- datamods - Shiny modules to import and manipulate data from various sources.
- shinydrive - Shiny module for file sharing between users with admin and user roles.
Special Input
- shinyTime - A timeInput widget for Shiny.
- shinyDatetimePickers - Datetime pickers for Shiny.
- DateTimeRangePicker - A datetime range picker widget for Shiny.
- shinyMatrix - Matrix input for Shiny.
- shinyCleave - Customized text inputs (phone number, ZIP code, currency, credit card) based on Cleave.js.
- shinySelect - A wrapper of the react-select library that supports grouped, sortable items with Font Awesome icons, KaTeX formulas, and Bootstrap tooltips.
- regexSelect - Enable regular expression searches within a Shiny selectize object.
- cascadeSelect - Cascade select widget for Shiny, useful for selection of hierarchical choices.
- reactCheckbox - Checkbox group input for Shiny, with a head checkbox allowing to check or uncheck all the checkboxes in the group.
- ShinyRatingInput - Star rating inputs for Shiny based on bootstrap-rating.
- algo - Implements the Algolia Places address search auto completion menu on shiny text inputs.
- shinyChakraSlider - Combined slider and number input for Shiny.
- histoslider - A histogram slider input binding for Shiny. Supports creating histograms from numeric, date, and date-time vectors.
- shinynlq - Natural language queries (NLQs) for Shiny as a bslib custom component.
- shinyMultiActionButton - A multi-action button for Shiny.
- NestedMenu - Multi-level dropdown menu selection input.
- codeModules - Shiny modules to import/manipulate/export tabular data, download plots/tables/widgets, and output code with syntax highlighting using highlight.js.
- shiny-highlight-rmarkdown - R code and R Markdown code output syntax highlighting using highlight.js.
- daterangepicker - A date-range input widget for Shiny.
- jqbr - jQuery QueryBuilder input for Shiny, enabling interactive construction of complex filter queries.
- shinyKnobs - A collection of knob inputs for Shiny.
- shinyRadioMatrix - Matrix of radio buttons input widget for Shiny, useful for Likert-scale and survey-style inputs.
- shinyRatings - Star rating input for Shiny apps.
- shinySearchbar - An input widget for searching and highlighting text in Shiny apps.
- shinyXYpad - XY controller input widget for Shiny.
- multiActionButton - Multi-action button for Shiny applications.
- vfinputs - Visual filter inputs for Shiny.
- shinyfilters - Create Shiny inputs from vectors, data frames, or any R object.
- picClip - Paste box input for Shiny, allowing users to paste images from the clipboard.
- shinyQueryBuilder - Construct complex filtering queries in Shiny.
- shinyCohortBuilder - Modular cohort-building framework for analytical dashboards.
- shinyfilter - Interdependent selectize filters for table columns in Shiny apps.
- IDEAFilter - Agnostic, idiomatic data filter module for Shiny.
- shinypanel - Shiny inputs with inline buttons, tooltips, and validation styling.
- shinyquiz - Create interactive quizzes in Shiny apps.
- scoutbaR - A spotlight React widget for Shiny apps, providing a command palette UI.
- shinyDTC - Dynamic timer control widget for Shiny.
- shinyTimer - Customizable timer widget for Shiny applications.
- shinycroneditor - Cron expression input widget for Shiny apps.
- rquiz - Interactive quiz widgets for Shiny, R Markdown, and Quarto.
Loader
- shinycssloaders - CSS loader animations for Shiny outputs.
- shinycustomloader - Custom css/html or gif/image loaders for Shiny outputs.
- shinybusy - Minimal busy indicator for Shiny apps.
- shiny.emptystate - Empty state components for Shiny.
- shinydisconnect - Show a nice message when a Shiny app disconnects or errors.
- waiter - Splash loading screens for Shiny.
- sever - Customize Shiny's disconnected screen.
- shiny-fcp-loader - Shiny app template with a loading screen that aims to minimize the time to First Contentful Paint (FCP).
- shiny-loading-skeleton - Shiny app template with an animated, fully customizable skeleton loader.
- standby - Alerts, notifications, and loading screens for Shiny.
Feedback / Alert / Notification
- shinyFeedback - Display user feedback next to Shiny inputs.
- shinyalert - Create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny apps.
- shinytoastr - Notifications for Shiny apps, via toastr.
- shinyToastify - A wrapper of the React-Toastify library for Shiny.
- shinypop - Collection of notifications, confirm dialogs, and alerts for Shiny apps based on noty, notie, push.js, and notiflix.
- shinyvalidate - Add input validation capabilities to Shiny.
- awn - Awesome Notifications for Shiny.
- micromodal - Simple modal dialogs for Shiny based on Micromodal.js.
Walkthrough / Tooltip / Help
- rintrojs - Wrapper for Intro.js to create step-by-step introductions and clickable hints.
- tippy - Wrapper for Tippy.js to add tooltips to R Markdown documents or Shiny apps.
- cicerone - Create guided tours for Shiny apps using driver.js.
- shinyhelper - Add Markdown help files to Shiny app elements.
- scrollrevealR - Animate shiny elements when they scroll into view using the scrollrevealjs library.
- faq - Accordion-based FAQ component with expand/collapse control.
- flashCard - HTML widget for creating flippable flash cards.
- prompter - Add tooltips in Shiny apps with 'hint.css'.
- conductor - Create guided tours in Shiny apps using Shepherd.js.
Clipboard
- rclipboard - Wrapper for clipboard.js to create copy-to-clipboard buttons for Shiny apps.
Color Picker
- colourpicker - A colour picker tool for Shiny.
- gradientPickerD3 - Interactive color gradient picker based on jquery-gradient-picker.
- gradientInput - Another approach at gradient colour picker, implemented using the
colourpickerpackage.
Editor
- aceEditor - Ace editor as an HTML widget based on react-ace.
- shinyAce - Ace code editor bindings for Shiny.
- shinyMonacoEditor - The Monaco Editor in Shiny.
- shinyMCE - TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor bindings for Shiny.
- sqlquery - HTML widget for writing SQL queries with autocompletion for SQL keywords and table/field names.
- shinyEditor - Ace and Monaco editor bindings for Shiny applications.
- monaco - The Monaco Editor as an HTML widget.
- markdownInput - Shiny module for a Markdown input with live result preview.
- shinyNotes - Shiny module for taking free-form notes.
- DataEditR - Interactive data editor for Shiny with modules for editing, filtering, and syncing data.
- findInFiles - Search files and display grep results in an HTML widget with Shiny bindings.
- highlighter - Prism.js syntax highlighting for code snippets and complete files.
Chat
- shinychat - Chat UI component for Shiny.
- chattr - Interact with large language models (LLMs) in RStudio through the R console or Shiny gadget.
- gptstudio - Incorporate use of large language models (LLMs) into project workflows, with Shiny bindings for streamingMessage components.
- shinyChatR - Reusable chat module for Shiny apps. Allows sending messages and view messages from other users. Messages can be stored in a database or a
.rdsfile. - shiny.ollama - Shiny interface for chatting with large language models offline using Ollama.
- querychat - Filter and query data frames in Shiny using an LLM chat interface.
Table
- DT - R interface to the DataTables library.
- reactable - Interactive data tables for R, based on the React Table library and made with reactR.
- reactable.extras - Enhanced functionality for reactable in Shiny applications, with interactive and dynamic data table capabilities.
- reactablefmtr - Simplify the styling, formatting, and customization of tables made with reactable.
- kableExtra - Construct complex table with
knitr::kable()and pipes. - formattable - Table elements formatting and styling for R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
- flextable - Create tables for reporting with format and layout control.
- gt - Generate information-rich, publication-quality tables.
- gtExtras - Extending gt for beautiful HTML tables.
- gtsummary - Presentation-ready data summary and analytic result tables.
- rhandsontable - Create Excel-like editable tables in Shiny apps.
- DTedit - Editable DataTables for Shiny apps.
- dteditmod - A fork of DTedit with a modular implementation and more documentation.
- texPreview - Preview and save images of rendered snippets of LaTeX in RStudio viewer, R Markdown and Shiny.
- basictabler - Construct rich tables for output to HTML/Excel.
- pivottabler - Create pivot tables in R.
- pivta - R wrapper for WebDataRocks, an interactive pivot table component for data analysis.
- excelR - R interface to the jExcel.js library.
- xSpreadsheet - R wrapper for the JavaScript canvas spreadsheet library x-spreadsheet.
- editbl - DT (DataTables) extension to support interactive editing. Easily supports databases.
- rtabulator - R bindings for the Tabulator JS library for interactive tables.
- muiDataGrid - MUI X Data Grid for Shiny apps and Quarto, a fast and extensible React data table with filtering, sorting, and pagination.
- tableHTML - Create and style HTML tables with CSS, with Shiny rendering functions.
- toastui - Interactive tables, calendars, and charts based on the TOAST UI JavaScript library.
- shinypivottabler - Shiny module to create interactive pivot tables.
- shinydataviewer - Reusable data viewer module for Shiny.
- ViewR - Interactive data table and data explorer with a virtualized grid, spark histograms, hover metadata, visual query builder, and code generation.
- dataviewR - Interactive data frame viewer with filtering, column selection, and code generation.
- dtsmartr - Interactive virtualized data explorer grid htmlwidget with column-type detection, multi-value filtering, sorting, and virtual scrolling.
- DT2 - DataTables 2.x htmlwidget with Shiny rendering, proxy, and event helpers.
- RagGrid - AG Grid htmlwidget for interactive tables in R Markdown and Shiny.
- htmlTable - Advanced HTML tables with Shiny output and render bindings.
- nestable - Collapsible hierarchical HTML tables with Shiny bindings.
- cheetahR - High-performance Cheetah Grid htmlwidget for large interactive tables.
- QuickExplore - Shiny modules for browsing, filtering, summarizing, and converting tabular datasets.
- perspectiveR - Perspective htmlwidget for interactive pivot tables and browser-side analytics, with Shiny proxy support.
- condformat - Conditional formatting for data frames.
- tangram - Formula grammar for creating tables.
Drawers
- pushbar - Brings pushbar.js to Shiny. Create off-canvas sliding drawers for inputs, outputs, or any other content.
Drag and Drop
- shinyDND - Create drag and drop elements in Shiny.
- sortable - HTML widget for SortableJS that enables drag-and-drop behavior and reorderable elements.
- dragulaR - R interface for the dragula JavaScript library for moving around elements in Shiny apps.
- dndselectr - Drag-and-drop Shiny select input.
- esquisse - Drag and drop inputs and visual builder for ggplot2.
- shinykanban - Interactive Kanban board with drag-and-drop interface for Shiny.
Text
- marker - Highlight text in Shiny with markjs.
- circletyper - Curve text elements in Shiny using CircleType.js.
- equatiomatic - Transform fitted statistical models into LaTeX equations, with Shiny output and render bindings.
- epoxy - Data-driven string interpolation helpers for Shiny UI and rendered HTML text.
Image / Audio / Video
- shinysense - A series of shiny modules to help Shiny sense the world around it (draw, swipe cards, record images from a webcam, record audio, capture accelerometer data).
- pixels - HTML widget and Shiny Gadget to render and draw pixels.
- fabricerin - Create HTML5 canvas in Shiny and R Markdown documents based on Fabric.js.
- heyshiny - Speech to text input.
- vembedr - Embed videos in R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
- webcamR - HTML widget wrapper around the react-webcam library.
- drawer - A front-end only image editor for both Shiny and R Markdown.
- shinyscreenshot - Capture screenshots of entire pages or parts of pages in Shiny apps.
- howler - Shiny extension for howler.js to add audio playback controls.
- annotator - Image annotation and polygon outlining htmlwidget using free drawing.
- video - Shiny extension for video.js to embed customizable HTML5 video players.
- freewall - Dynamic image grid layouts for Shiny and R Markdown.
- swipeR - Carousels using the JavaScript library Swiper.
- rintimg - View an image in full screen by clicking on it.
- recogito - Text and image annotation.
- rpdf - Mozilla pdf.js htmlwidget for R.
Icon Font
- fontawesome - Insert FontAwesome icons into R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
- icongram - Interface to Icongram, easily fetch svg icons with a single function.
- rheroicons - A zero-dependency SVG icon library implementing the Heroicons set for Shiny.
- bsicons - Bootstrap Icons helpers for Shiny, R Markdown, and htmltools.
- phosphoricons - Phosphor icon set for Shiny and R Markdown.
- lucidr - Lucide SVG icons for R.
Image Comparison
- vdiffr - Visual regression testing and graphical diffing, with toggle, slide, and diff widgets for comparing two images.
- slideview - Slider-based htmlwidget for comparing raster images side by side.
Code Diff
- diffviewer - HTML widget to visually compare files (text, images, and data frames).
- diffr - Create code diff widgets based on codediff.js.
- diffRgit - Create an HTML Git diff widget using the diff2html library.
- jsondiff - R interface to jsondiffpatch for comparing R objects as JSONs.
Calendar
- tuicalendr - HTML widget to create interactive calendars with JavaScript library tui-calendar.
Notebooks
- robservable - Observable notebooks as R htmlwidgets.
Animation Effects
- typedjs - R htmlwidget for animated typing effect with typed.js.
- countup - R htmlwidget that animates a numerical value by counting to it with CountUp.js.
- textillate - CSS3 text animations with textillate.js.
- shinyglide - Create carousel-like or assistant-like (wizard) UI components with Glide.js.
- d3rain - HTML widget bringing D3 drip to R.
- hover - Add animations to Shiny button elements using Hover.css.
- bubblyr - Add animated bubbles to Shiny and R Markdown backgrounds.
- shinyEffects - Customize shiny apps with CSS effects (Zoom / Pulse / Shadow / Shake).
- shinyanimate - Animation for Shiny elements using Animate.css.
- shinyLottie - Seamlessly integrate Lottie animations into Shiny applications.
- vov - CSS animations for Shiny elements.
- spoiler - Blur HTML elements in Shiny applications using Spoiler-Alert.js.
- r2fireworks - Add fireworks celebration effects to Shiny apps and R Markdown.
- aos - Apply scroll-triggered animations to Shiny and R Markdown elements using the AOS (Animate On Scroll) library.
- aniview - Animate Shiny and R Markdown elements when they scroll into view, powered by AniView and Animate.css.
- animejs - Low-level htmlwidget bindings to Anime.js for browser-native SVG and HTML animations.
- GomoGomonoMi - Animate Shiny and R Markdown text using Animate.css.
- countdown - A countdown timer for Shiny apps, R Markdown, and Quarto.
- flipdownr - Flipdown.js countdown component for R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
- flipdownWidgets - Flipdown.js countdown htmlwidget with Shiny bindings.
i18n
- shiny.i18n - Easy internationalization of Shiny apps.
- shi18ny - Tools for shiny apps internationalization.
React
- reactR - Use React in R with htmlwidget constructor templates and local JavaScript dependencies.
- shinyReactWidgets - React widgets for Shiny apps.
- shiny.react - Tools for using React in Shiny.
- reactRouter - React Router for Shiny apps and Quarto.
Vue.js
- vuer - Use Vue components and build Vue apps in R.
- vueR - Use Vue.js in R with htmlwidget constructor templates and local JavaScript dependencies.
Advanced Interactivity
- htmlwidgets - A framework for creating R bindings to JavaScript libraries.
- crosstalk - Inter-widget interactivity (for example, linked brushing and filtering) for htmlwidgets.
- shinyjs - Perform common JavaScript operations in Shiny apps.
- shinyjqui - Add jQuery UI interactions and effects (e.g. draggable, resizable, sortable elements) to Shiny apps.
- shiny.collections - Google Docs-like live collaboration in Shiny with RethinkDB.
- shinyCanvas - Create and customize an interactive canvas using the D3 JavaScript library and the htmlwidgets package.
- shinymeta - Record and expose Shiny app logic using metaprogramming.
- shinyscroll - Scroll to an element in Shiny.
- scroller - Smooth scroll to any element in Shiny apps and R Markdown documents using the Arbitrary Anchor jQuery plugin.
- gotop - Add a scroll back to top Font Awesome icon to Shiny apps and R Markdown documents using jQuery GoTop.
- pagemapR - Create a mini map for Shiny apps and R Markdown documents.
- keys - Assign and listen to keyboard shortcuts in Shiny using the Mousetrap JavaScript library.
- js4shiny - Companion package for 'JavaScript for Shiny Users' workshop, with components to enable using R Markdown for literate programming with JavaScript.
- flexfilter - Create a filter from a data frame that enables users to dynamically add filters on each column. The filter dynamically generates the appropriate input for the selected column based on its type.
- overshiny - Draggable and resizable rectangular overlays on Shiny plots.
- r2resize - In-text resizable containers for images, tables, and other content in Shiny, R Markdown, and Quarto.
- manipulateWidget - Add interactivity to htmlwidgets with combine and filter controls for Shiny.
- linkeR - Link interactive plots and tables in Shiny applications for coordinated views.
- shinyphaser - Interface to the Phaser.js game framework for constructing and managing 2D games in Shiny apps.
- bscui - Interactive SVG custom interfaces with Shiny bindings and proxy updates.
- svgPanZoom - Add pan and zoom interactivity to SVG graphics as an htmlwidget.
- shinyReports - Render R Markdown reports to HTML and open them in a new browser tab.
Visualization
Frontend components for interactive visualization of specific data types.
General-Purpose
- plotly - Interactive web graphics via plotly.js. Has special support for linking/highlighting/filtering views.
- highcharter - R wrapper for the highcharts JavaScript charting library.
- rbokeh - R interface for Bokeh.
- echarts4r - Interactive graphs with Echarts v4.
- g2r - Grammar of graphics for interactive visualization using G2.js.
- litecharts4r - A lite wrapper around echarts.js and echarts4r.
- r2d3 - R interface to D3 visualizations.
- vegalite - R ggplot2 bindings for Vega-Lite.
- vegawidget - HTML widget renderer for Vega and Vega-Lite.
- sketch - Creates static / animated / interactive visualizations embeddable in R Markdown documents and Shiny. Implements an R-to-JavaScript transpiler and enables users to write JavaScript applications using the syntax of R.
- d3po - Fast and beautiful interactive visualization for R Markdown and Shiny. Acts as intermediate layer between Shiny and D3 by providing templates.
- ggiraph - HTML widget that makes ggplot2 graphics interactive. Select graphical elements, add tooltips, animations, and JavaScript actions to the graphics.
- rfrappe - HTML widget for the Frappe Charts JavaScript library.
- tuichartr - HTML widget for tui-chart.
- billboarder - HTML widget for billboard.js.
- apexcharter - HTML widget for ApexCharts.js.
- taucharts - HTML widget for Taucharts.
- googleVis - R interface to Google Charts.
- rroughviz - R warpper for roughViz.js, a JavaScript library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn styled charts.
- rAmCharts4 - R interface to amCharts 4.
- fusionchartsR - R wrapper for the FusionCharts JavaScript charting library.
- rPackedBar - Packed bar charts with plotly as an htmlwidget.
- maidr - Multimodal access and interactive data representation with accessibility features.
- GWalkR - Interactive Tableau-like exploratory data analysis htmlwidget for Shiny.
- AutoPlots - High-level ECharts visualization helpers for common chart types and model evaluation plots.
- canvasXpress - Interactive visualization for scientific and biomedical research using CanvasXpress.
- echarty - Minimal Shiny and htmlwidget interface to Apache ECharts.
- flourishcharts - Flourish htmlwidget for interactive data storytelling charts.
- lineupjs - LineUp.js htmlwidget for interactive visual analysis of multi-attribute rankings.
- plotscaper - Linked interactive exploratory figures with selection, zooming, and panning.
- rAmCharts - Interface to the amCharts JavaScript charting library.
- Rnvd3 - Wrapper for selected nvd3 JavaScript charts.
- detourr - Interactive 2D and 3D scatterplot display.
- shinyHugePlot - Efficient Plotly/Shiny plotting for very large datasets using downsampling.
- altair - R interface to Altair and Vega-Lite with Shiny-ready vegawidget output bindings.
- c3 - Interactive C3.js charts for R Markdown and Shiny applications.
- SveltePlots - Svelte and D3 charting htmlwidget designed to simplify Shiny interactivity.
- upsetjs - UpSet.js htmlwidget for interactive set intersection visualizations.
- vchartr - Interactive charts with the VChart JavaScript library.
- visachartR - Accessibility-focused htmlwidget wrappers for Visa Chart Components.
- myIO - Composable D3 htmlwidget chart system.
- vizdraws - Interactive visualization of Bayesian prior and posterior distribution draws.
- rMosaic - R bindings to the Mosaic declarative visualization framework with linked, interactive plots backed by DuckDB.
Scatterplot
- scatterD3 - R scatterplot htmlwidget based on D3.js.
- pairsD3 - D3 scatterplot matrices.
- rthreejs - Interactive 3D scatterplots, networks, and globes based on three.js.
- graph3d - R wrapper of the JavaScript library vis-graph3d.
- hpackedbubble - Split packed bubble charts with highcharts.
- scatterPlotMatrix - D3 scatter plot matrix htmlwidget with Shiny bindings.
- picker - High-performance deck.gl scatterplot widget with Shiny bindings.
- langevitour - Interactive tours of 2D projections of high-dimensional data.
Parallel Coordinates
- parcoords - HTML widget for D3 parallel coordinates chart.
- parallelPlot - D3 parallel coordinates htmlwidget with Shiny bindings.
- klustR - D3 visualizations for interactive parallel coordinate and principal component plots.
Time Series
- dygraphs - R interface to the dygraphs JavaScript charting library.
- metricsgraphics - An htmlwidget interface to the MetricsGraphics.js D3-based charting library.
- timevis - Interactive timeline visualizations based on vis.js.
- linevis - Interactive time-series visualizations based on vis.js, easy to synchronize with timevis.
- timelineschart - R interface to timelines-chart.
- streamgraph - HTML widget for creating streamgraph visualizations in R.
- eventdropR - HTML widget for EventDrops, time based and event series interactive visualization using D3.
- tsibbletalk - Interactive graphics for tsibble objects with Shiny modules for exploring temporal patterns.
- cronologia - HTML vertical timeline component for R Markdown and Shiny.
Tree and Hierarchical Data
- D3partitionR - D3-based interactive visualization of nested and hierarchical data (sunburst, treemap, circle treemap, icicle, and partition chart) for Shiny.
- d3Tree - D3-based collapsible trees for Shiny.
- collapsibleTree - D3-based interactive collapsible tree diagrams.
- jsTree - R htmlwidget for inspecting heirachal structures with the jQuery jsTree plugin.
- shinyTree - jsTree bindings for creating interactive trees in Shiny.
- jsTreeR - A wrapper of the JavaScript library jsTree.
- shinyCheckboxTree - Checkbox tree widget for Shiny. Wrapper of the JavaScript library react-checkbox-tree.
- muiTreeView - MUI X Tree View for Shiny apps and Quarto, a React component for navigating expandable, collapsible hierarchical lists.
- listviewer - View and modify lists interactively, based on jsoneditor and react-json-view.
- trelliscopejs - Create interactive Trelliscope displays based on trelliscopejs-lib.
- Rmarkmap - Create interactive mind maps with the markmap JavaScript library.
- voronoiTreemap - Interactive Voronoi treemaps as htmlwidgets.
- vtree - Display information about nested subsets of a data frame as htmlwidgets.
- nivo.bubblechart - Nivo circle packing htmlwidget for hierarchical bubble charts in Shiny.
- sunburstShinyWidget - D3-based sunburst htmlwidget for hierarchical data in Shiny.
- sunburstR - D3 sunburst charts for hierarchical data.
- heattree - Interactive phylogenetic tree visualization.
- treemap - Hierarchical data visualization with treemaps.
Network and Graph Data
- networkD3 - Create D3 network, tree, dendrogram, and Sankey diagram from R.
- visNetwork - Network visualization using vis.js.
- sigmajs - Interface to the sigma.js graph visualization library, including animations, plugins, and Shiny widgets.
- sigmaNet - Render igraph networks using sigma.js.
- chorddiag - R interface to D3 interactive chord diagrams.
- chordViz - Create interactive chord diagrams in R.
- edgebundleR - Circular layout plots with bundled edges based on D3.
- hiveD3 - D3-based hive plots. Tutorial for recreating the package.
- grapher - An R integration of ngraph to create 3D and 2D interactive graphs.
- shinyCyJS - Cytoscape.js R binding for Shiny.
- cyjShiny - R/Shiny widget for Cytoscape.js.
- g6R - Graph visualization engine widget based on AntV G6 for R and Shiny.
- sgraph - Network visualization for large igraph graphs with sigma.js v2.
- ndtv - Animated visualizations for dynamic network data.
Categorical Data
- bar - Interactive one-dimensional proportions chart for representing categorical data.
- parcats - Interactive parallel categories diagrams using plotly.js.
Diagrams
- DiagrammeR - Diagram, graph, and network visualization based on D3.js, viz.js, and mermaid.js.
- nomnoml - R interface to nomnoml, a tool for drawing sassy UML diagrams based on syntax with customizable styling.
- bpmn - R interface to the bpmn-js library.
- processmapR - Construct interactive process maps using event data as htmlwidgets.
- amVennDiagram5 - Interactive amCharts 5 Venn diagrams for Shiny and R Markdown.
- bpmnVisualizationR - BPMN diagram htmlwidget with overlays, styling, and interactions.
- sankeywheel - Highcharts-based Sankey diagrams and dependency wheels for Shiny and R Markdown.
Heatmap
- d3heatmap - D3-based interactive heatmaps (highlight rows/columns, zoom in/out, clustering, dendrograms).
- heatmaply - Interactive heatmaps using plotly.
- rChartsCalmap - An htmlwidgets binding for calendar heatmaps using D3.
- calheatmapR - R interface for the cal-heatmap JavaScript charting library to create calendar heatmaps.
- nivocal - HTML widget for drawing calendar heatmaps based on nivo.
- supercaliheatmapwidget - Supercalifragilistic HTML calendar heatmaps.
- iheatmapr - Modular interactive complex heatmaps as htmlwidgets.
Maps and Spatial Data
- leaflet - R interface to the Leaflet JavaScript library to create interactive maps.
- leaflet.extras - Extra functionality for the leaflet package.
- leaflet.extras2 - More plugins for the leaflet package.
- leafgl - Performant WebGL rendering for leaflet.
- leaflet.minicharts - Add and modify small charts on the interactive map created with the leaflet package.
- leaflet.opacity - Opacity controls for Leaflet maps.
- leaftime - Leaflet-timeline plugin for Leaflet to show changing geospatial data over time.
- leafletCN - China and geojson choropleth maps for Leaflet.
- leafdown - Provides drilldown functionality for leaflet choropleths.
- mapdeck - Interactive maps using Mapbox GL and Deck.gl.
- deckgl - R Interface to Deck.gl.
- r2deck - R interface to Deck.gl and Mapbox GL visualizations.
- h3r - Uber's H3 geographical indexing library bindings for R.
- googleway - Access Google Maps API to retrieve data and draw maps.
- mapview - Interactive viewing of spatial data.
- mapedit - Interactive editing of spatial data.
- tmap - Create thematic maps, such as choropleths and bubble maps.
- datamaps - Create interactive choropleth maps with the JavaScript library Datamaps, add arcs and bubbles, change choropleth values, and change labels.
- topogram - Cartogram htmlwidget for visualizing geographical data by distorting a TopoJSON topology using cartogram-chart.
- rsquaire - R interface for squaire.js, a JavaScript library for making responsive equal-area square maps using D3.
- hchinamap - Mapping China and its provinces with highcharts.
- planetary - HTML widget for the planetary.js library for creating interactive globes.
- gior - HTML widget for gio.js for declarative 3D globe data visualization.
- quickglobe - View country data via a 3D D3 globe.
- mapgl - Interactive maps using Mapbox GL JS and MapLibre GL JS.
- AtlasMaker - Shiny module to create multiple interconnected leaflet maps across tabs.
- rDeckgl - R bindings to Deck.gl.
- toro - Interactive and customizable maps using the MapLibre GL JS library.
- bivariateLeaflet - Create bivariate choropleth maps with Leaflet.
- leafem - Leaflet and mapdeck extensions for mouse coordinates, image queries, zoom controls, and feature layers.
- leaflegend - Custom legends and symbols for leaflet maps.
- leaflet.providers - Third-party map tile provider definitions for the leaflet package.
- leafpm - Leaflet plugin for drawing and editing spatial features.
- leafpop - Embed tables, images, and graphs in leaflet popups.
- leafsync - Small multiples of synchronized leaflet web maps.
- flowmapblue - Interactive flow map htmlwidget for movement flows between geographic locations.
- maplamina - High-performance WebGL mapping widgets based on MapLibre GL and deck.gl.
- plainview - Interactive raster image viewer on a plain HTML canvas.
- geoarrowWidget - Attach GeoArrow and GeoParquet data to interactive htmlwidgets.
- tmap.mapgl - Mapbox GL JS and MapLibre GL JS modes for tmap.
- amapro - Build and control interactive 2D and 3D AMap/Gaode maps in R and Shiny.
- explodemap - Hierarchical exploded-view cartography with an interactive focus map widget for Shiny.
- webmap - Interactive Leaflet web maps using The National Map services, with map controls and widgets.
Sparkline
- sparkline - jQuery Sparkline (tiny inline charts) HTML Widget for R. Use sparklines in DT.
- reactrend - Simple, elegant spark lines and trend graphs based on react-trend.
- trendchart - Small, simple trendchart for R.
- peity - Inline charts for R.
- dataui - Interactive visualizations of data-ui based on vx.
Word Cloud
- wordcloud2 - Word cloud visualization based on wordcloud2.js.
- hwordcloud - Render word clouds with highcharts.
- d3wordcloud - HTML widget for D3.js word cloud layout.
Biological Data
- igvR - R package providing interactive connections to igv.js running in a web browser.
- igvShiny - HTML widget for igv.js, a JavaScript library for embeddable genomic visualization.
- nglShiny - NGL Viewer as an htmlwidget for molecular visualization.
- NGLVieweR - Interactive 3D visualization of molecular structures using the NGL Viewer JavaScript library.
- shiny.molstar - Shiny wrapper for Mol*, a visualization toolkit of large scale molecular data.
- msaR - BioJS-based MSA (multiple sequence alignment) viewer.
- shiny.gosling - Shiny wrapper for Gosling.js, grammar-based toolkit for scalable and interactive genomics data visualization.
- TnT - Track-based visulizations based on the TnT JavaScript libraries. Useful for displaying genomic features as a simple genome browser.
- mutsneedle - Interactive mutation lollipop diagrams.
- g3viz - D3-based interactive lollipop plots.
- BioCircos.R - Interactive circular visualization of genomic data using htmlwidgets and BioCircos.js.
- chromoMap - Interactive visualization and mapping of human chromosomes.
- ideogRam - HTML widget for chromosome visualization with ideogram.js.
- flowDashboard - Shiny Modules for visualizing flow cytometry data.
- qtlcharts - Interactive graphics for QTL experiments.
- phylocanvas - Interactive phylogenetic trees using the Phylocanvas JavaScript library.
- phylowidget - Interactive phylogenetic trees based on phylotree.js.
- JBrowseR - R interface to the JBrowse 2 linear genome view.
- safetyCharts - Charts for monitoring clinical trial safety.
- threeBrain - Advanced 3D brain visualization as an htmlwidget.
- volcanoPlot - Volcano plot Shiny module for clinical trial adverse event monitoring.
- geneviewer - Interactive gene cluster visualization.
- ggseg3d - Interactive Three.js brain atlas meshes visualization.
- shinybody - Interactive anatomography widget for Shiny.
- jellyfisher - Interactive jellyfish plots combining sample and phylogenetic trees to visualize spatiotemporal tumor evolution.
- Racmacs - Make antigenic maps from immunological assay data.
Chemical Data
- r3dmol - Visualizing molecular data in 3D, based on 3Dmol.js.
- chemdoodle - HTML widget for visualizing and drawing molecules.
WebGL
- rgl - Render WebGL scenes created with the rgl package (vignette).
- rayshader - Create and visualize hillshaded maps from elevation matrices.
- rayrender - Build and raytrace 3D scenes.
- rayimage - Render depth of field for images.
- ggWebGL - Browser-native WebGL rendering for R graphics.
- r3js - WebGL-based 3D plotting with three.js and Shiny bindings.
- thorn - WebGL shader htmlwidgets that can be used as Shiny app backgrounds.
- cubeview - Interactive 3D raster cube viewer.
Augmented and Virtual Reality
- shinyaframe - WebVR data visualizations with Shiny and Mozilla A-Frame.
- arframer - Augmented Reality in R based on AR.js.
Frameworks
Shiny app scaffolding and development frameworks built for various purposes.
Foundational frameworks
- Rhino - Build high quality, enterprise-grade Shiny apps at speed.
- golem - Opinionated framework for building production-grade Shiny apps.
- teal - Interactive exploration framework for analyzing clinical trials data, provides a dynamic filtering facility and different data viewers.
- yonder - A reactive web framework built on Shiny with Bootstrap 4.
- aurora - Build stateless web apps in R with plumber2 and bslib.
- blockr.core - Graphical web framework for data manipulation and visualization using reusable, composable blocks.
- learnr - Interactive R Markdown tutorials with Shiny-powered exercises, quizzes, and question widgets.
- surveydown - Markdown-based programmable surveys using Quarto and Shiny, with skip logic, multiple question types, and database storage.
Scaffolding
- leprechaun - Code generator for lean and robust Shiny applications.
- windy - Sets up basic scaffold to use Tailwind CSS within an R package for a Shiny application.
- periscope - Enterprise streamlined Shiny application framework with reusable downloadable modules.
- periscope2 - Enterprise streamlined Shiny application framework using bs4Dash.
- autoshiny - Automatically transform an R function into a Shiny app object or app files.
Framework extensions
- teal.code - Code storage and execution class for teal applications.
- teal.data - Data model for teal applications.
- teal.logger - Logging setup for the teal family of packages.
- teal.modules.clinical - A set of teal modules for standard clinical outputs.
- teal.modules.general - General modules for teal applications.
- teal.picks - Dataset and variable picker and merge module for teal applications.
- teal.reporter - Reporting tools for Shiny modules.
- teal.slice - Filter module for teal applications.
- teal.transform - Functions and Shiny modules for extracting and merging data within the teal framework.
- teal.widgets - Shiny widgets for teal applications.
- uteals - Shared decorators, transformators, and utility functions that extend teal modules.
- blockr.dag - A directed acyclic graph extension for blockr.
- blockr.dock - A docking layout manager for blockr.
- blockr.dplyr - Interactive dplyr data transformation blocks for blockr.
- blockr.ggplot - Interactive ggplot2 visualization blocks for blockr.
- blockr.io - Interactive file import and export blocks for blockr.
- formods - Shiny modules for general tasks including data wrangling, figure generation, and app state management.
- tutorial.helpers - Helper functions and Shiny modules for creating, editing, and testing tutorials with learnr, including collecting student submissions.
- mwshiny - Run a Shiny app across multiple connected browser windows.
- VizModules - Flexible Shiny plotting modules for composing interactive visualization apps.
Backend
Backend components and service integrations for Shiny apps.
Database
- Best Practices in Working with Databases - Packages and tutorials for connecting R and Shiny apps to databases.
- pool - Database connection pooling in R.
- elastic - R client for the Elasticsearch HTTP API.
- sergeant - Transform and query data with Apache Drill.
Persistent Data Storage
- pins - Publish data sets, models, and other R objects to folders, Posit Connect, Amazon S3, and more.
- shinystate - Customize Shiny's bookmarkable state with configurable storage locations via the pins package.
API Frameworks
- RestRserve - R web API framework for building high-performance and robust microservices and app backends.
- plumber - Create web APIs by decorating R code with special comments.
- plumber2 - Easy and powerful webservers in R. A complete rewrite of plumber.
- valve - Create multi-threaded Plumber APIs powered by Rust's tokio and axum web frameworks.
- htmxr - Build server-driven web applications in R with htmx for partial page updates and plumber2 for non-blocking HTTP endpoints.
- opencpu - A system for embedded scientific computing and reproducible research with R.
- communicate - Small framework to communicate between Shiny client and server via HTTP requests.
URL Routing
- shiny.router - Minimalistic URL router for Shiny apps.
- shinyURL - Save and restore the state of a Shiny app by encoding the values of user inputs and active tab panels in the app's URL query string.
- brochure - Create natively multi-page Shiny applications to serve content from multiple endpoints. See blog post on POST requests support.
- scenes - Switch between alternative UIs based on request properties, such as cookies, paths, query parameters, or HTTP request method.
- Accepting POST requests from Shiny - Undocumented feature for handling POST requests that are not associated with any specific Shiny session.
- shinypayload - Accept POST data and URL parameters in Shiny for same-port integration.
Authentication
- shinymanager - Simple and secure authentification mechanism for single Shiny apps.
- gargle - Infrastructure for calling Google APIs from R, including auth.
- googleAuthR - Shiny compatible Google API client for authentication with OAuth2.
- auth0 - Authentication in Shiny apps using Auth0.
- shinyauthr - Server-side authentication using shiny modules.
- firebase - Authenticate Shiny users with Google Firebase.
- otp - One-Time Password generation and verification.
- backendlessr - R wrapper for Backendless API to manage users.
- cognitoR - Authentication for Shiny apps with Amazon Cognito.
- login - Shiny login module providing customizable login/logout UI.
- polished - Authentication, user administration, and hosting for Shiny apps.
- shinydbauth - Simple authentication for Shiny applications with database-backed credential storage.
- shinyOAuth - Provider-agnostic OAuth authentication for Shiny applications.
- tapLock - Seamless Single Sign-On for Shiny.
- rAccess - Access control module for Shiny applications with hierarchical permission management.
Job Scheduling
- cronR - R package for managing cron jobs.
Web APIs Integration
- glouton - Handle browser cookies in shiny, built on top of js-cookie.
- cookies - Another js-cookie package, with added functionality to handle HttpOnly cookies.
- geoloc - Use the Geolocation API to get the location of the user (with user's permission).
- shinyStore - Use the Web Storage API to store persistent, synchronized data in the user's browser.
- shinyStorePlus - In-browser storage for Shiny persistent, synchronized data from the inputs using IndexedDB.
- AutoDeskR - Interface to Autodesk Platform Services APIs with Shiny viewers for 2D and 3D design models.
Notification Integration
- slackr - Send messages, images, R objects, and files to Slack channels/users.
- sendgridr - Send emails with SendGrid mail API (v3).
- twilio - R interface to the Twilio API.
- blastula - Easily send HTML email messages from R.
- mjml - Create responsive emails with R and MJML.
- mailtoR - Creates a friendly user interface for emails sending in Shiny.
- emailjsr - EmailJS integration for sending emails from Shiny apps.
- r2social - Social media sharing and connect buttons for Shiny and R Markdown.
Cloud Integration
- cloudyr - R packages for integrating with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
G Suite Integration
- googlesheets4 - R interface to Google Sheets via the Sheets API v4.
- googlesheets - R interface to Google Spreadsheets API (no longer under active development).
- googledrive - R API client for Google Drive.
- gmailr - Access the Gmail RESTful API from R.
Deploy
Deploy Shiny apps to the cloud, hosted infrastructure, or desktop.
Remote Deploy
- rsconnect - Deploy Shiny apps to shinyapps.io, or Posit Connect.
- connectwidgets - Query a Posit Connect server for a subset of content items, then organize them within htmlwidget components in R Markdown documents or Shiny applications.
- tinyshinyserver - Lightweight multi-app Shiny proxy with WebSocket support and automatic health monitoring.
Desktop Deploy
- RInno - Deploy Shiny apps to Windows by interfacing Inno Setup and Electron.
- electricShine - Create distributable Shiny Electron apps.
- photon - RStudio Add-in to build Shiny apps utilizing the Electron framework.
- DesktopDeployR - A framework for deploying self-contained R-based applications to the desktop.
- Shiny Meets Electron - Talk at useR! 2018 on turning Shiny app into standalone desktop apps. Talk video.
- r-shiny-electron - Template for R Shiny and Electron integration.
- nativefier - Create Electron wrappers for any websites (including remotely deployed Shiny apps).
- shiny.pwa - Progressive Web App (PWA) support for Shiny, enabling installable web apps.
Static Server Deploy
- r-shinylive - Run Shiny apps entirely in the browser using WebAssembly via webR.
- webR - A version of R compiled for the browser and Node.js using WebAssembly via Emscripten.
Developer Tools
Debug, test, and optimize Shiny apps.
Prototyping
- shinyuieditor - A GUI for laying out a Shiny application that generates clean and human-readable UI code.
- shinipsum - Lorem-Ipsum-like helpers for fast Shiny prototyping.
- fakir - Create fake data in R for tutorials.
- shinysnippets - A series of Shiny related RStudio snippets.
- midas - Bootstrap new Shiny functions by turning HTML snippets directly into R tag functions.
- html2R - Converts HTML markup into R tag code for building Shiny UIs.
- ShinyQuickStarter - RStudio addin for drag-and-drop creation of Shiny apps, dashboards, and modules.
Modularization
- tidymodules - An object-oriented approach to Shiny modules.
- supreme - Structure Shiny applications developed with modules.
- packer - An opinionated framework for using JavaScript with R.
- box - Organize code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, to use across projects.
- many - Use multiple directories to build R packages.
- component - Create components for Shiny, inspired by Vue.js.
- gargoyle - An event-based mechanism for Shiny, providing lighter alternatives to standard reactive objects.
- shiny.destroy - Create destroyable modules in Shiny, allowing dynamic creation and removal of module instances.
Debugging
- reactlog - Visual debugger for Shiny reactivity.
- shinyobjects - Access reactive data interactively to help debug reactive data frames and load assigned objects into local environment.
- shinyStep - Shiny modules for user-editable R functions with an Ace code editor, R console, and step debugger.
- flow - Visualize code flow and dependencies, including dependencies between Shiny app modules.
Testing
- shinytest - Automated testing for Shiny apps.
- shinytest2 - Automated unit testing of Shiny apps through a headless Chromium browser.
- shinyloadtest - Load testing for Shiny apps.
- reactor - Unit testing for Shiny reactivity.
- shinyValidator - Audit Shiny apps at each commit.
- data.validator - Validate dataset and generate a report.
Profiling
- profvis - Interactive visualizations for profiling R code. Profiling Shiny apps.
- shiny.benchmark - Measure and compare the performance of different versions of a Shiny application.
- shiny.info - Displays simple diagnostic information of the Shiny project in the user interface of the app.
- shiny.tictoc - Measure Shiny app performance in the browser.
Scaling
- promises - Promise-based asynchronous programming for R. Using promises with Shiny.
- shinyParallel - Run Shiny applications in a multi-session mode.
- FutureManager - Background processes for long-running operations in Shiny applications.
- shiny.worker - Delegate heavy computation tasks to a separate process in a Shiny application.
- ipc - Tools for message passing between processes, with Shiny-specific features for async progress bars and reactive value updates from futures.
Monitoring and Analytics
- shiny.telemetry - Track events occurring on a user session and stores them in a local or remote database.
- shinymetrics - Track shiny applications with Shinymetrics, providing analytics and telemetry for Shiny applications.
- titan - Prometheus monitoring for Shiny applications, plumber APIs, and other R web services.
- openmetrics - An opinionated Prometheus client for R conforming to the OpenMetrics standard.
- pRometheus - A Prometheus client library for R, Plumber, and Shiny.
- shinylogs - Record everything that happens in a Shiny application, including inputs, outputs, errors, and session information.
- AzureAppInsights - Include Azure Application Insights telemetry in Shiny apps.
Miscellaneous
Not necessarily an R package, but it helps.
UI Customization
- Bootstrap Live Customizer - Customize Bootswatch themes (Bootstrap 3) to create your own Bootstrap themes.
- google-webfonts-helper - A hassle-free way to self-hosted Google Fonts, useful for air-gapped environments.
- shinyfullscreen - Display HTML elements on full screen using 'screenfull.js'.
- shinybrowser - Find out information about a user's web browser in Shiny.
- shinytitle - Update the browser window title dynamically in a Shiny session.
- a11yShiny - Accessibility-enhanced replacements for popular Shiny UI functions.
- shinyseo - Inject SEO, Open Graph, Twitter, site verification, and schema.org metadata into Shiny apps.
- favawesome - Use Font Awesome Icons as Shiny favicons.
- metathis - Add HTML metadata tags for Shiny apps and R Markdown documents.
- hypothesis - Add, share, and manage hypothes.is annotations in Shiny apps and R Markdown documents.
Dependency Resolution
- renv - Create isolated, portable, and reproducible environments for R projects.
- packrat - Parse R package dependencies of Shiny apps with
packrat::appDependencies. - sysreqsdb - SystemRequirements mappings for R packages.
- shinyapps-package-dependencies - A collection of bash scripts that install system dependencies for R packages.
Editor Extensions
- shiny-vscode - VS Code extension to run Shiny apps (in R and Python) and create or save Shinylive links.
- ShinyUiEditor - A visual tool for building the UI portion of a Shiny application that generates clean and human-readable code.
- shinysnip - Simple Shiny code snippets generator in VS Code.
- textmate.rstheme - A light theme for VS Code inspired by the TextMate (default) theme in RStudio IDE.
Books
- Mastering Shiny: Build Interactive Apps, Reports, and Dashboards Powered by R
- Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps
- JavaScript for R
- Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny
Videos / Screencasts
- Shiny Developer Series - Interviews with practitioners & developers of Shiny and the broader ecosystem of Shiny packages, plus occasional live streams of Shiny app development in action.
Shiny for Python
Python - Theming
- brand-yml - Unified branding with
_brand.ymlfiles. - py-shinyswatch - Bootswatch themes for py-shiny.
Python - UI Components
- py-htmltools - Tools for creating, manipulating, and writing HTML from Python.
- py-faicons - An interface to Font Awesome for use in Shiny for Python.
- py-shinywidgets - Render ipywidgets inside a Shiny app.
- py-shiny-validate - Input validation for Shiny for Python applications.
- shinymedia - UI controls for recording video clips and playing audio media.
- py_shiny_semantic - Create rich web applications in PyShiny using styles and components from Fomantic UI.
Python - Chat
- shinychat - Chat UI component for Shiny for Python.
- shinyrealtime - Integrate OpenAI's Realtime API.
Python - Table
- great-tables - Create styled display tables in Python.
- gt-extras - Additional helper functions for enhancing great-tables tables.
- itables - Display Pandas and Polars data frames as interactive DataTables that you can sort, paginate, scroll, and filter.
- reactable-py - Interactive data tables for Python, port of the R package reactable.
Python - Frameworks
- Tapyr - Shiny for Python application template.
Python - Deploy
- py-shinylive - Export Shiny applications as Shinylive applications.
- rsconnect-python - CLI for interacting with and deploying to Posit Connect.
Python - Persistent Data Storage
- pins-python - Publish data, models, and other Python objects for sharing across projects and with colleagues.