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Roberto Chiosa edited this page Oct 28, 2020 · 5 revisions

The Sidebar is the way you can navigate across the dashboard.

It is organized into tabs and sub-tabs as follows:

  1. Welcome: It is the landing page of the dashboard
  2. Explore: it is an item which permits to perform preliminary exploration of data and manipulation. It is organized into sub-tabs:
    • Manage: it permits to load a dataset through a user defined file format and perform a preliminary exploration of variables
    • View: it permits to view the loaded dataset under tabular form. You can rename the variables and perform pivot actions on the table.
    • Visualize: it permits to select from different chart types, modify the plotting parameters and visualize the dataset
  3. Advanced: It contains links to separately developed apps that perform advanced data analytics tasks
  4. Source Code:

The sidebar code is contained in sidebar.R script.

Code

Into a sidebarMenu(id = "tabs") the previously listed tabs and sub-tabs are created respectively through the menuItem() and menuSubItem() function. Each item is labeled with a tabName. To keep track in the which tab is selected the selected_sidebar_tab output is created on the server side and printed on the bottom of the sidebarMenu()

#### UI
textOutput("selected_sidebar_tab")

#### SERVER
output$selected_sidebar_tab <- renderText({
    paste("You've selected:", input$tabs)
})
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