Cannot control Legend in Shiny ggplot - r

I have two problems. First I want to be able to format the numbers in the legend. Outside of Shiny I can do this fine using format(val, big.mark = ",") in the geom_point() call. But when I get to Shiny it won't work. Also as you can see there are only two points in the legend. I want more points. If is on for each value that is ok but I also want to be able to control it. I have tried scale_fill_manual(values = factor(val)) and the same with scale_color_manual() but neither seem to work either in Shiny or just in R.
My shiny server code is below:
shinyServer(function(input, output) {
#spend <- spend[order(spend$Tier.1.Contract.Category),]
spend <- read.csv("data/Construction_data.csv")
centpop <- aggregate(cbind(Action.Obligation, Action_Absolute_Value) ~ Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name + FY, spend, sum)
#centmap <- map("world", region = toupper(centpop$Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name))
mapdata <- map_data("world2", region = unique(centpop$Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name), na.rm = TRUE)
mapdata$countries <- toupper(mapdata$region)
centmerge <- merge(x = centpop, y = mapdata, by.x = "Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name", by.y = "countries", na.rm +TRUE)
centmerge <- centmerge[order(centmerge$Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name,centmerge$order),]
centavg <- aggregate(cbind(Action_Absolute_Value, Action.Obligation, lat, long, group)~ Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name + FY, centmerge, mean)
output$GMap <- renderPlot({
options(scipen = 999)
centavg <- centavg[centavg$FY == input$FY,]
ggplot(data = centmerge, aes_string(x="long", y="lat", group = "group")) +
geom_polygon(stat = "identity", fill = "#CC6600", color = "black", alpha =.7) +
geom_point(data = centavg, aes_string(x = "long", y = "lat", group = "Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name", size = input$SpendType), stat = "identity", color = "#990000")+
scale_size_continuous(range = c(3,8)) +
ggtitle("Contract Spending in the CENTCOM AOR") +
coord_map("polyconic")+
theme(axis.text.y = element_blank(), axis.text.x = element_blank(), axis.title.x=element_blank(),
axis.title.y=element_blank(),axis.ticks = element_blank(), panel.background = element_blank(), plot.title=element_text(face="bold", size=20))+
labs(size = "Amount ($M)")
})
and my ui is the following:
library(shiny)
spend <- read.csv("data/CENTCOMdata.csv")
shinyUI(fluidPage(
titlePanel("Contract Spend"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
selectInput("SpendType", label = "Select Action Obligation Type",
choices = colnames(spend)[11:12]
),
selectInput("FY", label = "Fiscal Year",
choices = unique(spend$FY),
selected = min(unique(spend$FY))
)
),
mainPanel(plotOutput("GMap")
)
)
))
it produces the chart seen below:
Thanks
UPDATE: Here is a sample of my data. It won't be enough to reproduce the whole thing but, will give a sense of the fields and data types.
Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name = c("BAHRAIN","BAHRAIN","BAHRAIN","EGYPT","EGYPT","EGYPT","IRAN","IRAN","IRAQ","IRAQ","IRAQ","JORDAN","JORDAN","JORDAN","KUWAIT","KUWAIT")
FY = c(2013,2014,2015,2013,2014,2015,2013,2014,2013,2014,2015,2013,2014,2015,2013,2014)
Action_Absolute_Value = c(771321456.1,479582869.8,514214922.1,97286075.83,69121513.24,23071035.64,1382620,24423.76,2022560127,1999064521,120073800.5,266136924.4,380041091.5,54896224.32,3189939809,1982808077)
Action.Obligation = c(758755260,440975903.7,507433161.8,85876698.15,55720022.7,21882002.7,1382620,-24423.76,1146078095,647903735.5,77122340.53,244683999.1,368479216.8,49013205.78,2970687191,1752387003)
lat = c(26.1272188822428,26.1272188822428,26.1272188822428,29.0995075001436,29.0995075001436,29.0995075001436,32.9537412255211,32.9537412255211,32.83929874051,32.83929874051,32.83929874051,31.2209393637521,31.2209393637521,31.2209393637521,29.4381094614665,29.4381094614665)
long = c(50.5078544616699,50.5078544616699,50.5078544616699,31.8482420528636,31.8482420528636,31.8482420528636,53.2439389524207,53.2439389524207,45.3801684841033,45.3801684841033,45.3801684841033,36.4073101225353,36.4073101225353,36.4073101225353,47.735088857015,47.735088857015)
group = c(22,22,22,8.61176470588235,8.61176470588235,8.61176470588235,5.16814159292035,5.16814159292035,8.03225806451613,8.03225806451613,8.03225806451613,8,8,8,18.3333333333333,18.3333333333333)
data.frame(Principal.Place.of.Performance.Country.Name,FY,Action_Absolute_Value, Action.Obligation, lat, long, group)

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How would I tackle this problem?
have you tried:
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R Shiny: create non-reactive background in plotOutput

I'm trying to build a shiny app where I can change a plot interactively. I want the plot to change within miliseconds and as the changes only include the addition of some points this is actually possible.
The reproducible example contains an abstraction of this idea. The first example plots a scatterplot and I can interactively change the number of points. This happens basically immediately. I'll refer to this part of the plot as the "reactive layer".
library(shiny)
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sliderInput(inputId = "slider_input", label = "Reactive values:", min = 1, max = 100, value = 10),
plotOutput(outputId = "plotx")
)
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y = sample(x = -4:4, size = input$slider_input, replace = T)
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})
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = quick_server)
The problem is that the plot that I want to change interactively always includes a "slow non reactive layer" of many datapoints that are unreactive and never change. Due to the size of this data set and renderPlot() always replotting it the speed with which I interactively change the "reactive layer" decreases dramatically.
library(shiny)
ui <- fluidPage(
sliderInput(inputId = "slider_input", label = "Reactive values:", min = 1, max = 100, value = 10),
plotOutput(outputId = "plotx")
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y = sample(x = -4:4, size = input$slider_input, replace = T),
col = "red",
cex = 5,
pch = 19
)
})
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = slow_server)
As the base data and the resulting plot (here a cloud of points) never changes it is quite annyoing that renderPlot() always replots everything (both "layers"). Is there a way to "isolate" the plot created from the non reactive data set? Such that the layer that is not reactive is not replotted?
I have already tried to work with ggplot2 and create a steady layer
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steady_layer <- reactiveVal(value = geom_point(data = big_data_frame, mapping = aes(x = x, y = y))
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)
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})
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Although I can imagine that the solution might be to create a .png of the big plot and use it as the background of the HTML and CSS for the output$plotx by making it a reactive UI I have not managed to manipulate the HTML and CSS successfully.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks so much in advance!
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So here I have a smart trick for you: why do we update on the same plot? We can use one plot as background and it is slow, but we only render it one time, and we will never touch it again. Then we update another plot that has only a few points and we stack this plot on top of the slow plot.
Here is how:
add some CSS tricks to do the stacking
rendering the slow plot
rendering the the quick plot with transparency
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div(
class = "large-plot",
plotOutput(outputId = "plot_bg"),
plotOutput(outputId = "plotx")
),
tags$style(
"
.large-plot {
position: relative;
}
#plot_bg {
position: absolute;
}
#plotx {
position: absolute;
}
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)
)
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scale_x_continuous(breaks = -4:4) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = -4:4) +
xlim(-5, 5) +
ylim(-5, 5)
})
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y = sample(x = -4:4, size = input$slider_input, replace = T)
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scale_y_continuous(breaks = -4:4) +
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panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
legend.background = element_rect(fill = "transparent"),
legend.box.background = element_rect(fill = "transparent")
)+
xlim(-5, 5) +
ylim(-5, 5)
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}
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Need help on ggplot in R, I am getting an error: 'argument "x" is missing, with no default'

[enter image description here][1]I am trying to create a lowry plot in R but am having difficulty debugging the errors returned. I am using the following code to create the plot:
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape)
m_xylene_data <- data.frame(
Parameter = c(
"BW", "CRE", "DS", "KM", "MPY", "Pba", "Pfaa",
"Plia", "Prpda", "Pspda", "QCC", "QfaC", "QliC",
"QPC", "QspdC", "Rurine", "Vfac", "VliC", "Vmax"),
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1.03E-01, 9.91E-02, 9.18E-07, 3.42E-02, 9.27E-3, 2.82E-2, 2.58E-05,
1.37E-05, 5.73E-4, 2.76E-3, 6.77E-3, 8.67E-05, 1.30E-02,
1.19E-01, 4.75E-04, 5.25E-01, 2.07E-04, 1.73E-03, 1.08E-03),
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1.49E-02, 1.43E-02, 1.25E-04, 6.84E-03, 3.25E-03, 7.67E-03, 8.34E-05,
1.17E-04, 2.04E-04, 7.64E-04, 2.84E-03, 8.72E-05, 2.37E-03,
2.61E-02, 6.68E-04, 4.57E-02, 1.32E-04, 6.96E-04, 6.55E-04
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)
fortify_lowry_data <- function(data,
param_var = "Parameter",
main_var = "Main.Effect",
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{
#Convert wide to long format
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#Order columns by main effect and reorder parameter levels
o <- order(data[, main_var], decreasing = TRUE)
data <- data[o, ]
data[, param_var] <- factor(
data[, param_var], levels = data[, param_var]
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#Force main effect, interaction to be numeric
data[, main_var] <- as.numeric(data[, main_var])
data[, inter_var] <- as.numeric(data[, inter_var])
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data$.cumulative.main.effect <- cumsum(data[, main_var])
data$.cumulative.total.effect <- cumsum(data$.total.effect)
#A quirk of ggplot2 means we need x coords of bars
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#The other upper bound
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data$.maximum <- c(1 - rev(cumsum(rev(data[, main_var])))[-1], 1)
data$.valid.ymax <- with(data,
pmin(.maximum, .cumulative.total.effect)
)
mdata[, param_var] <- factor(
mdata[, param_var], levels = data[, param_var]
)
list(data = data, mdata = mdata)
}
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param_var = "Parameter",
main_var = "Main.Effect",
inter_var = "Interaction",
x_lab = "Parameters",
y_lab = "Total Effects (= Main Effects + Interactions)",
ribbon_alpha = 0.5,
x_text_angle = 25)
{
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data = mdata) +
geom_ribbon(
aes(x = .numeric.param, ymin = .cumulative.main.effect, ymax =
.valid.ymax),
data = data,
alpha = ribbon_alpha) +
xlab(x_lab) +
ylab(y_lab) +
scale_y_continuous(labels = "percent") +
theme(axis.text.x = text(angle = x_text_angle, hjust = 1)) +
scale_fill_grey(end = 0.5) +
theme(legend.position = "top",
legend.title =blank(),
legend.direction = "horizontal"
)
p
}
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When I run the code, it is giving me the following error:
Error: argument "x" is missing, with no default
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Lowry PLOT
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# geom_bar does the counting but does not take y-value. Use geom_col:
geom_col(aes_string(x = param_var, y = "value", fill = "variable"),
data = mdata,
position = position_stack(reverse = TRUE)) +
geom_ribbon(
aes(x = .numeric.param, ymin = .cumulative.main.effect, ymax =
.valid.ymax),
data = data,
alpha = ribbon_alpha) +
xlab(x_lab) +
ylab(y_lab) +
# use scales::percent_format():
scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format()) +
# text is not an element you can use here, use element_text():
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = x_text_angle, hjust = 1)) +
scale_fill_grey(end = 0.5) +
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theme(legend.position = "top",
legend.title = element_blank(),
legend.direction = "horizontal"
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This at least plots something, but I'm not sure whether it is what you expect it to do. It would help if you could show the desired output.
Edit:
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Finding the random x-values used by geom_jitter

I want to be able to select observations from a box plot with jittered points over top. I have been somewhat successful by having the point click find the category, look at the y-value and select the observation. The following code shows my progress so far:
# ------------------------------Load Libraries---------------------------------
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
# -------------------------Print Boxplot to Screen-----------------------------
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# --------------------------Store Clicked Points-------------------------------
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# ---------------------------Modify the Dataset--------------------------------
IRIS <- reactive({iris %>% mutate(index = clicked$rows)})
# ---------------------Select Points Through Plot Click------------------------
observeEvent(
input$irisClick,{
nS <- iris %>% mutate(selected = rep(FALSE,nrow(iris)))
lvls <- levels(iris$Species)
plant <- lvls[round(input$irisClick$x)]
pxl <- which(
sqrt((iris$Sepal.Width-input$irisClick$y)^2) %in%
min(sqrt((iris$Sepal.Width-input$irisClick$y)^2))
)
point <- iris[pxl,'Sepal.Width']
nS[nS$Species == plant & nS$Sepal.Width %in% point,'selected'] <- TRUE
clicked$rows <- xor(clicked$rows, nS$selected)
})
# --------------------------Generate the Boxplot-------------------------------
output$irisPlot <- renderPlot({
set.seed(1)
ggplot(IRIS(), aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Width))+
geom_boxplot(na.rm = TRUE,outlier.shape = NA)+
geom_jitter(
na.rm = TRUE,
width = .8,
aes(shape = index, size = index, colour = index)
)+
theme(
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_rect(colour = 'black', fill = NA),
legend.position = "none"
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scale_shape_manual(values = c('FALSE'= 1,'TRUE'= 19))+
scale_size_manual(values = c('FALSE' = 4, 'TRUE'= 2))+
scale_colour_manual(values = c('TRUE' = "#428BCA", 'FALSE' = '#FAA634'))
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As I said the code mostly works but it can be inconsistent. Sometimes it can't find a point, other times it selects a large group of points or selects a point on the opposite side of the box plot. I figure the best way to solve this is to have both an x and y coordinate to select the point however, since the x values are randomly generated I need geom_jitter() to tell me what x-values it is using for a given plot but I have not been able to find any way to access this. Any help finding this information would be greatly appreciated.
My thanks to aosmith for telling me about the layer_data() function and to Peter Ellis for suggesting that I use geom_point() instead of geom_jitter() both comments were instrumental in helping me solve my problem.
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# ------------------------------Load Libraries---------------------------------
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
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geom_jitter(na.rm = TRUE,width = .8)
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# -------------------------Print Boxplot to Screen-----------------------------
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plotOutput('irisPlot', click = 'irisClick')
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# --------------------------Store Clicked Points-------------------------------
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# ---------------------Select Points Through Plot Click------------------------
observeEvent(
input$irisClick,{
nS <-data.frame( iris, x = xPoints)
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df = nS,
coordinfo = input$irisClick,
xvar = 'x',
yvar = 'Sepal.Width',
allRows = TRUE
)
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})
# --------------------------Generate the Boxplot-------------------------------
output$irisPlot <- renderPlot({
ggplot(IRIS(), aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Width))+
geom_boxplot(na.rm = TRUE,outlier.shape = NA)+
geom_point(
aes(
x = xPoints,
y = iris$Sepal.Width,
shape = index,
size = index,
colour = index
),
inherit.aes = FALSE
)+
theme(
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_rect(colour = 'black', fill = NA),
legend.position = "none"
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scale_shape_manual(values = c('FALSE'= 1,'TRUE'= 19))+
scale_size_manual(values = c('FALSE' = 4, 'TRUE'= 2))+
scale_colour_manual(values = c('TRUE' = "#428BCA", 'FALSE' = '#FAA634'))
})
output$x <- renderPlot({
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
Just for the benefit of people like me who might be googling this problem I solved it very easily using Peter Ellis's suggestion of jittering the points myself using jitter().
I'm making it into an answer because I thought it should be more visible, I nearly missed it when I was looking at this page.

Select range in interactive shiny plots

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geom_rect(aes(xmin = sel2[1], xmax = sel2[length(sel2)],
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which creates:
Now I want the user to be able to move the areas (preferably by dragging the shaded areas in plot 1 around!) using shiny.
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dat <- data.frame(x = index,y = cumsum(rnorm(1000, mean = 0.1)))
dat <- xts(dat[,-1], order.by=dat[,1])
ui <- fluidPage(
titlePanel("Shaded Regions using dygraphs and rCharts by Pork Chop"),
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
sliderInput("range_one", "Range One:",min = 100, max = 1000, value = c(200,300)),
sliderInput("range_two", "Range Two:",min = 100, max = 1000, value = c(500,600)),width=3),
mainPanel(
column(12,dygraphOutput("dygraph")),
column(12,showOutput("summary", "Highcharts"))
)
)
)
server <- function(input, output) {
output$dygraph <- renderDygraph({
dygraph(dat, main = "Sample Data") %>%
dyShading(from = index[input$range_one[1]], to = index[input$range_one[2]], color = "#FFE6E6") %>%
dyShading(from = index[input$range_two[1]], to = index[input$range_two[2]], color = "#CCEBD6")
})
output$summary <- renderChart2({
Selection1 <- dat[input$range_one[1]:input$range_one[2]]
Selection2 <- dat[input$range_two[1]:input$range_two[2]]
subset_data <- data.frame(merge(Selection1,Selection2))
a <- rCharts:::Highcharts$new()
a$chart(type = "column")
a$title(text = "Summary Stats")
a$yAxis(title = list(text = "Count"))
a$data(subset_data)
a$exporting(enabled=T)
a$set(width = 1200,height = "100%",slider = TRUE)
return(a)
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
I think I found a solution that is able to use interactive ggplot's in a shiny environment. The code looks like this:
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)
ifna <- function(x, elseval = NA) ifelse(is.na(x) || is.null(x), elseval, x)
# two plots: as described in the question
ui <- fluidPage(
uiOutput("plotui"),
plotOutput("plot2")
)
server = function(input, output) {
set.seed(123)
dat <- data.frame(x = 1:1000,
val = cumsum(rnorm(1000, mean = 0.1)))
base <- 200:400 # Base Selection
# reactive expressions to get the values from the brushed area
selmin <- reactive(round(ifna(input$plot_brush$xmin, elseval = 700), 0))
selmax <- reactive(round(ifna(input$plot_brush$xmax, elseval = 900), 0))
# include the brush option: direction = "x" says that y values are fixed (min and max)
output$plotui <- renderUI({
plotOutput("plot", height = 300,
brush = brushOpts(id = "plot_brush", direction = "x",
fill = "blue", opacity = 0.5)
)
})
# render the first plot including brush
output$plot <- renderPlot({
ggplot() + geom_line(data = dat, aes(x = x, y = val)) +
geom_rect(aes(xmin = base[1], xmax = base[length(base)],
ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf), alpha = 0.5, fill = "red") +
geom_rect(aes(xmin = 700, xmax = 900,
ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf), alpha = 0.1, fill = "blue") +
ylab("Value") + xlab("t")
})
# render the second plot reactive to the brushed area
output$plot2 <- renderPlot({
# prepare the data
pdat <- rbind(data.frame(y = dat[dat$x %in% base, "val"],
type = "Base"),
data.frame(y = dat[dat$x %in% selmin():selmax(), "val"],
type = "Selection"))
ggplot(pdat, aes(x = y, fill = type)) +
geom_histogram(alpha = 0.5, position = "dodge") +
scale_fill_manual(name = "", values = c("red", "blue")) +
theme(legend.position = "bottom") + ylab("Frequency") + xlab("Value")
})
}
# run the app
shinyApp(ui, server)
Which gives something like this (the dark-blue box is interactive, as in you can push it around and the lower graph updates!
Picture of Shiny App

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