Introduction

ShinyRGL is a Shiny wrapper for the RGL package. This package enables users to create Shiny apps that use interactive 3D graphics in WebGL using the RGL package. The implementation can be as simple as adding lines like the following:

ui.R

...
  # Create an output element (works just like 'plotOutput()')
  webGLOutput("myWebGL")
...

server.R

...
  output$myWebGL <- renderWebGL({
    points3d(1:10, 1:10, 1:10)
    axes3d()
  })
...

Add this to your Shiny app, and you should see something like the following:

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Examples

The package ships with two examples:

3D Scatterplot

Code is available here

3D Bivariate Normal Distribution

Code is available here

Installation

You can install the latest version of the code using the devtools R package.

# Install devtools, if you haven't already.
install.packages("devtools")

library(devtools)
install_github("shinyRGL", "trestletech")

# OPTIONAL (for persistent viewpoint between WebGL scene refreshes)
install_github("rgl", "trestletech", "js-class")

License

The development of this project was generously sponsored by the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire and performed by Jeff Allen. The code is licensed under The MIT License (MIT).

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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