D3.js integration
This is naturally perfectly possible as D3 visualizations are HTML/JavaScript-based, and as it was already explained in this book, Shiny applications can support this type of content without any problems.
This section will have three main subsections:
- What is D3.js?
- networkD3
- An introduction to
htmlwidgets
What is D3?
D3.js is a JavaScript library designed by Mike Bostock. As with any other library in any other language (for example, R), D3 contains a set of functions written in JavaScript that are especially used for visualizations.
The name of this library is an acronym for Data-Driven Documents (three times the letter D) and its name is self-explanatory of the purpose of the library's functions, that is, to produce HTML documents ...
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