Awesome Shiny Extensions

A curated list of awesome R packages that offer extended UI or server components for the R web framework Shiny.

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• 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!

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• Awesome Shiny Extensions
  • Theming
    • Generic Theming
    • Dashboard Theming
    • Mobile Theming
  • UI Components
    • Bootstrap
    • File Input
    • Special Input
    • Loader
    • Feedback / Alert / Notification
    • Walkthrough / Tooltip / Help
    • Clipboard
    • Color Picker
    • Editor
    • Table
    • Drawers
    • Drag and Drop
    • Image / Audio / Video
    • PDF
    • Icon Font
    • Code Diff
    • Animation Effects
    • i18n
    • React
    • Vue.js
    • Advanced Interactivity
  • Visualization
    • General-Purpose
    • Scatterplot
    • Time Series
    • Tree and Hierarchical Data
    • Network and Graph Data
    • Heatmap
    • Maps and Spatial Data
    • Sparkline
    • Word Cloud
    • Biological Data
    • WebGL
    • Augmented and Virtual Reality
  • Backend
    • Database
    • URL Routing
    • Authentication
    • Job Scheduling
    • Web APIs Integration
    • Notification Integration
    • Cloud Integration
    • G Suite Integration
  • Deploy
    • Cloud Deploy
    • Desktop Deploy
  • Developer Tools
    • Prototyping
    • Debugging
    • Testing
    • Profiling
    • Scaling
    • Analysis
  • Miscellaneous
    • UI Customization
    • Dependency Resolution

Theming

An awesome Shiny app often looks different from the default Bootstrap theme.

Generic Theming

• shinythemes - Bootswatch themes (Bootstrap 3) for Shiny.
• shiny.semantic - Semantic UI for Shiny.
• shinymaterial - Material Design for Shiny with Materialize.css.
• shinyUIkit - UIkit API for Shiny.
• fullPage - Single page styles for Shiny apps.
• shinybulma - Bulma.io for Shiny.
• shinyMetroUi - Metro 4 UI for Shiny.
• yonder - A reactive web framework built on Shiny with Bootstrap 4.

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 - Semantic 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.

Mobile Theming

• miniUI - Widgets and layouts for Shiny apps working on small screens. Designed for creating Shiny Gadgets.
• shinyF7 - Theming Shiny apps with Framework7, a full featured HTML framework for building iOS & Android apps.

UI Components

Frontend UI components for special input/output types.

Bootstrap

• ShinyWidgets - Bootstrap 3 custom widgets for Shiny (switches, checkboxes, sweet alerts, slider text, knob inputs, select pickers, search bar, dropdown buttons).
• bsplus - Bootstrap 3 addons for Shiny and R Markdown (collapsible elements, accordion panels, accordion-sidebar sets, tooltips, popovers, modals, carousels).
• shinyBS - Bootstrap 3 components for Shiny (alerts, tooltips, popovers, modals, collapsible panels, button upgrades).
• slickR - Carousels for Shiny apps using slick.js.
• shinyLP - Bootstrap 3 landing pages for Shiny apps.

File Input

• shinyFiles - A server-side file system viewer for Shiny.
• directoryInput - Shiny input widget for selecting directories.

Special Input

• shinyTime - A timeInput widget for Shiny.
• shinyCleave - Customized text inputs (phone number, ZIP code, currency, credit card) based on Cleave.js.
• regexSelect - Enable regular expression searches within a Shiny selectize object.
• ShinyRatingInput - Star rating inputs for Shiny based on bootstrap-rating.

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.
• waiter - Splash 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.

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.
• shinyhelper - Add Markdown help files to Shiny app elements.

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 colourpicker package.

Editor

• shinyAce - Ace code editor bindings for Shiny.
• shinyMCE - TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor bindings for Shiny.

Table

• DT - R interface to the DataTables library.
• kableExtra - Construct complex table with knitr::kable() and pipes.
• formattable - Table elements formatting and styling for R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
• gt - Generate information-rich, publication-quality tables.
• rhandsontable - Create Excel-like editable tables in Shiny apps.
• DTedit - Editable DataTables for Shiny apps.
• 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.
• excelR - R interface to the jExcel.js library.

Drawers

• pushbar - pushbar.js for Shiny. Create off-canvas sliding drawers for inputs, outputs, or any other content.

Drag and Drop

• shinyDND - Create drag and drop elements in Shiny.

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 - htmlwidget and Shiny Gadget to render and draw pixels.
• vembedr - Embed videos in R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.
• webcamR - htmlwidget wrapper around the react-webcam library.

PDF

• rpdf - Mozilla pdf.js htmlwidget for R.

Icon Font

• fontawesome - Insert FontAwesome icons into R Markdown documents and Shiny apps.

Code Diff

• diffr - Create code diff widgets based on codediff.js.
• diffRgit - Create an HTML git diff widget using the diff2html library.

Animation Effects

• typed - 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 - htmlwidget bringing D3 drip to R.

i18n

• shiny.i18n - Easy internationalization of Shiny apps.

React

• reactR - Use React in R with htmlwidget constructor templates and local JavaScript dependencies.
• shinyReactWidgets - React widgets for Shiny apps.

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.

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.
• r2d3 - R interface to D3 visualizations.
• vegalite - R ggplot2 bindings for Vega-Lite.
• vegawidget - htmlwidget renderer for Vega and Vega-Lite.
• ggiraph - htmlwidget that makes ggplot2 graphics interactive. Select graphical elements, add tooltips, animations, and JavaScript actions to the graphics.
• rfrappe - htmlwidget for the Frappe Charts JavaScript library.
• tuichartr - htmlwidget for tui-chart.
• billboarder - htmlwidget for billboard.js.
• apexcharter - htmlwidget for ApexCharts.js.

Scatterplot

• scatterD3 - R scatterplot htmlwidget based on D3.js.
• pairsD3 - D3 scatterplot matrices.
• rthreejs - Interactive 3D scatterplots, networks, and globes based on three.js.
• hpackedbubble - Split packed bubble charts with highcharts.

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.
• timelineschart - R interface to timelines-chart.

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.
• listviewer - View and modify lists interactively, based on jsoneditor and react-json-view.
• trelliscopejs - Create interactive Trelliscope displays based on trelliscopejs-lib.
• gwordtree - Render a word tree with Google Charts.

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.
• edgebundleR - Circular layout plots with bundled edges based on D3.
• DiagrammeR - Graph and network visualization based on viz.js.
• hiveD3 - D3-based hive plots. Tutorial for recreating the package.
• arcDiagramR - Create arc diagrams with htmlwidgets.

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 - htmlwidget for drawing calendar heatmaps based on nivo.
• nivowaffle - htmlwidget for drawing waffle diagrams based on nivo.

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.minicharts - Add and modify small charts on the interactive map created with the leaflet package.
• leaflet.esri - ESRI bindings for the leaflet package.
• leaflet.opacity - Opacity controls for Leaflet maps.
• leafletCN - China and geojson choropleth maps for Leaflet.
• mapdeck - Interactive maps using Mapbox GL and Deck.gl.
• 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.
• hchinamap - Mapping China and its provinces with highcharts.
• mapbrew - Mapping China with amCharts.

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.

Word Cloud

• wordcloud2 - Word cloud visualization based on wordcloud2.js.
• hwordcloud - Render word clouds with highcharts.
• d3wordcloud - htmlwidget for D3.js word cloud layout.

Biological Data

• msaR - BioJS-based MSA (multiple sequence alignment) viewer.
• 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 - htmlwidget 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.

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.
• rayfocus - Render depth of field for images.

Augmented and Virtual Reality

• shinyaframe - WebVR data visualizations with Shiny and Mozilla A-Frame.
• arframer - Augmented Reality in R based on AR.js.

Backend

Backend components and service integrations for Shiny apps.

Database

• db.rstudio.com - 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.

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.

Authentication

• googleAuthR - Shiny compatible Google API client for authentication with OAuth2.
• auth0 - Authentication in Shiny apps using Auth0.
• shinyauthr - Server-side authentication using shiny modules.

Job Scheduling

• cronR - R package for managing cron jobs.

Web APIs Integration

• 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.

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.

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.

Cloud Deploy

• rsconnect - Deploy Shiny apps to shinyapps.io, or RStudio Connect.

Desktop Deploy

• RInno - Deploy Shiny apps to Windows by interfacing Inno Setup and Electron.
• Shiny Meets Electron - Talk at useR! 2018 on turning Shiny app into standalone desktop apps. Talk video.
• nativefier - Create Electron wrappers for any websites (including remotely deployed Shiny apps).

Developer Tools

Debug, test, and optimize Shiny apps.

Prototyping

• golem - Opinionated framework for building production-grade Shiny apps.
• 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.

Debugging

• shinyreactlog - Visual debugger for Shiny reactivity.
• reactlog - Easier debugging with the Shiny reactive log.

Testing

• shinytest - Automated testing for Shiny apps.
• shinyloadtest - Load testing for Shiny apps.

Profiling

• profvis - Interactive visualizations for profiling R code. Profiling Shiny apps.

Scaling

• promises - Promise-based asynchronous programming for R. Using promises with Shiny.

Analysis

• supreme - Structure Shiny applications developed with modules.

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.

Dependency Resolution

• 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.