While browsing the web in search of supporting material for the “Statistical Inference” course on Coursera, I ended up on this link, which proposed an interactive simulation of the Central Limit Theorem for Means. It works well, it is a nice piece of work.
I decided to have a look at the code, since in the bottom of the page there is a link to it. And there I was surprised for the first time! It is R code! It consists of a server.R and ui.R parts, and both start with:
library(shiny)
So, I do not know yet a lot about this, but these are the main points:
- Shiny is produced by the guys at RStudio
- They have provided a gallery of apps with source code
- They have provided almost 2.5 hours of tutorials to learn how to code shiny applications
Some of the application in the gallery look gorgeous. I do not have time now to go through the tutorials, but I will most certainly do at a later point.
