Interactive visualizations and reporting with Shiny

Lecture 18

Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Duke University
STA 313 - Spring 2026

Warm up

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Setup

# load packages
library(tidyverse)
library(ggtext)
library(glue)

# set theme for ggplot2
ggplot2::theme_set(ggplot2::theme_minimal(base_size = 16))

# set figure parameters for knitr
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  fig.width = 7, # 7" width
  fig.asp = 0.618, # the golden ratio
  fig.retina = 3, # dpi multiplier for displaying HTML output on retina
  fig.align = "center", # center align figures
  dpi = 300 # higher dpi, sharper image
)

Let’s make a Quarto dashboard

ae-14 - Step 1

  • Review dashboard layout components.
  • Add values to valueboxes.
  • Create cards automatically and manually.

ae-14 - Step 2

Add interactivity to your dashboard with Shiny inputs and outputs.

Learn more

https://quarto.org/docs/dashboards