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htmlwidgets and R Markdown - RStudio Tutorial

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htmlwidgets and R Markdown

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- [Instructor] Before getting into how to use htmlwidgets in R markdown, it's important to understand what exactly is a htmlwidget? Htmlwidgets are interactive data visualizations created with R code. There are many different htmlwidget packages, each designed for specific types of data visualization. If interactive data vis are of interest to you, I highly recommend checking out a dedicated htmlwidgets course in our library. I've included in the exercise files two examples of htmlwidgets. Let's go and take a look at them now. So in the exercise files, we'll go to 12_01, and we'll open up that R project. Let's first take a look at our time series htmlwidget. So I'll open this up. I'll select all of a code with command + A, and I'll run the code with Command + Enter. And what I can see in the viewer, which we can zoom in on with Control + Shift + 9, is an interactive time series chart. So I have a tool tip, as I move my cursor along, I can see the actual values through each year, and…

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