Loon.shiny

Shiny provides interactive web applications in R. JavaScript, CSS and Html are wrapped in r functions. Users with zero experience on such areas can also build fantastic, responsive and powerful web pages. A shiny application is composed of two components, a ui (user interface) object and a server function. This UI/server pair are passed as arguments to the shinyApp function that creates a shiny app object.

Loon is an uncurated interactive toolkit engaged in an open-ended, creative and unscripted data exploration. Designed for interactive exploratory data analysis, Loon provides true direct manipulations. It can be horizontally/vertically panned, horizontally/vertically zoomed, and have plot elements linked to one another to effect such coordinated display behaviour as the selection of points, brushing, etc.

Loon.shiny is mainly used to transform loon widgets into shiny web apps. This transmission is extremely useful in presentation. In interactive data analysis, one of the major difficulties is to reproduce and present analysis procedure. With Loon.shiny, analysis in loon is no longer necessary to be fixed and static. Analysts who explore data in loon now can present their interactive graphics in Rmarkdown which can help other users to explore some other possibilities even to draw different conclusions.