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Customizing Shiny Apps with shinydashboard

Mandy Norrbo isn’t satisfied with the defaults:

Using {shinydashboard} is great for creating dashboard prototypes with a header-sidebar-body layout. You can quickly mock up a professional looking dashboard containing a variety of outputs, including plots and tables.

However, after a while, you’ll probably have had enough of the “50 shades of blue” default theme. Or, you might have been asked to to follow company branding guidelines, so you need to replace the default colours with custom ones.

Click through for a walkthrough of what is available for customization and how to do it.