Rhino

Build high quality, enterprise-grade Shiny apps at speed.

Events

Upcoming

Would you like to learn about Rhino hands-on? Join our events! Upcoming events will be added to this section - stay tuned.

• Open Source Spotlight: New developments in Rhino
  2024-02-27 at 18:00 (UTC+1)
  Shiny Gathering led by Kamil Żyła

Past

• Best practices for coding Shiny apps with Rhino Team
  2023-06-27 at 18:00 (UTC+2)
  Online gathering led by Kamil Żyła

• Creating Shiny Apps with Rhino: the new framework for Shiny apps
  2022-05-13 at 18:00 (UTC+2)
  Online workshop led by Kamil Żyła

• Introducing Rhino: Shiny application framework for enterprise
  2022-07-28 at 15:20 (UTC-4)
  Talk given by Kamil Żyła at rstudio::conf(2022)

• Enterprise-grade Shiny App Development with {rhino}
  2022-08-23 at 11:00 (UTC-4)
  Workshop led by Jakub Nowicki at R/Medicine 2022

• Introducing Rhino: Shiny application framework for enterprise
  2022-09-07 at 11:30 (UTC+1)
  Talk given by Jakub Nowicki at EARL 2022

• Rhino Workshop
  2022-10-11 at 19:00 (UTC+2)
  Led by Kamil Żyła at LatinR 2022

Why Rhino?

Rhino allows you to create Shiny apps The Appsilon Way - like a fullstack software engineer. Apply best software engineering practices, modularize your code, test it well, make UI beautiful, and think about user adoption from the very beginning. Rhino is an opinionated framework with a focus on software engineering practices and development tools.

Rhino supports your work in 3 main areas:

1. Clear code: scalable app architecture, modularization based on Box and Shiny modules.
2. Quality: unit tests, E2E tests with Cypress, logging and monitoring, linting.
3. Automation: project startup, CI with GitHub Actions, dependency management with renv, configuration management with config, Sass and JavaScript bundling with ES6 support via Node.js.

These features are often implemented using well-known packages. Rhino brings them all working together out of the box!

Read more: What is Rhino?

Share feedback

Are you a Rhino user who want to share your feedback and shape the future of the package?

If yes, we would be very happy to hear from you in this anonymous developer survey! It shouldn’t take you more than 5 to 10 minutes to fill it in and it would definitely help us to understand your needs and plan new features.

Installation

Stable version:

install.packages("rhino")

Development version:

remotes::install_github("Appsilon/rhino")

Documentation

Rhino documentation is divided into four sections, accessible from the navigation bar at the top:

1. Tutorial: Start here to learn the basics.
2. Explanation: In-depth articles on Rhino machinery and its design.
3. How-to Guides: Step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
4. Reference: A list of Rhino functions with technical details.

Check out our Rhino Showcase, an example Shiny application built using Rhino.

You can also learn about Rhino by watching the video from one of our workshops: Creating Shiny Apps with Rhino: the new framework for Shiny apps. A repository with step-by-step commits for the workshop application can be found here.

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Developed with ❤️ at Appsilon. Get in touch: opensource@appsilon.com.

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