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Create Global Input Sidebar

Let's make a global sidebar for a multi-page dashboard.

This exercise is part of the course

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

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Exercise instructions

  • Make the sidebar on this dashboard global so it appears on both pages.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

{"my_document.Rmd":"---\ntitle: \"Bike Shares Daily\"\noutput: \n  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:\n    orientation: columns\n    vertical_layout: fill\nruntime: shiny\n---\n\n```{r global, include=FALSE}\nlibrary(flexdashboard)\nlibrary(readr)\nlibrary(leaflet)\nlibrary(DT)\nlibrary(tidyverse)\nlibrary(lubridate)\nlibrary(plotly)\n\ntrips_df <- read_csv('https://assets.datacamp.com/production/repositories/1448/datasets/1f12031000b09ad096880bceb61f6ca2fd95e2eb/sanfran_bikeshare_joined_oneday.csv') %>%\n  mutate(duration_min = duration_sec / 60)\n\n```\n\nOverview\n====================\n\nColumn {data-width=200 .sidebar}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n```{r}\n\nsliderInput(\"duration_slider\", label = \"Select maximum trip duration to display (in minutes):\",\n            min = 0, max = 120, value = 15, step = 5, dragRange = TRUE)\n\nsliderInput(\"duration_bin\", label = \"Select # of minutes to bin trip durations:\",\n           min = 1, max = 15, value = 1, step = 1)\n\nshow_trips_df <- reactive({\n\n  trips_df %>%\n    filter(duration_sec <= input$duration_slider * 60)\n\n})\n```\n\nColumn {data-width=450}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n### Origins\n\n```{r}\n\nrenderLeaflet({\n  show_trips_df() %>%\n    rename(latitude = start_latitude,\n           longitude = start_longitude) %>%\n    group_by(start_station_id, latitude, longitude) %>%\n    count() %>%\n    leaflet() %>%\n    addTiles() %>%\n    addCircles(radius = ~n)\n})\n\n```\n\n\nColumn {data-width=350}\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n### Total Trips\n\n```{r}\n\nrenderValueBox({\n  valueBox(prettyNum(show_trips_df() %>%\n                       nrow(), big.mark = ','), \n           icon = 'fa-bicycle')\n})\n\n```\n\n### Trips by Start Time\n\n```{r}\n\nrenderPlot({show_trips_df() %>%\n    mutate(hour = hour(start_date)) %>%\n    group_by(hour) %>%\n    summarize(`Trips Started` = n()) %>%\n    ggplot(aes(x = hour, y = `Trips Started`)) +\n    theme_bw() +\n    ylab('Trips Started \\n') +\n    geom_bar(stat = 'identity') \n})\n\n```\n\nDuration\n====================\n\n### Trip Durations\n\n```{r}\n\nrenderPlot({show_trips_df() %>%\n  mutate(`Trip Duration (min)` = duration_sec / 60) %>%\n  ggplot(aes(x = `Trip Duration (min)`)) +\n  theme_bw() +\n  geom_histogram(binwidth = input$duration_bin) +\n  ylab('# Trips')\n})\n\n```\n\n\n"}
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