epivizR ======== The `epivizr` Bioconductor package implements two-way communication between the [R/Bioconductor](http://bioconductor.org) environment and the [epiviz](http://epiviz.cbcb.umd.edu) web app for interactive data visualization. Objects in the R environment can be displayed as tracks or plots on Epiviz. Epivizr uses Websockets for communication between the browser Javascript client and the R environment using the same technology underlying the popular [Shiny](http://www.rstudio.com/shiny) system for authoring interactive web-based reports in R. ## Installation and requirements Epivizr is available as part of the [Bioconductor](http://bioconductor.org) project as of version 2.13. To install the release version of `epivizr`: ```{r} if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager") BiocManager::install("epivizr") ``` ## Development version This github repository contains the latest and greatest version of `epivizr` and is tracked by the devel version in Bioconductor (see [http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/useDevel/](http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/useDevel/) for more info. ## Try it out The easiest way to try `epivizr` out is to follow the package vignette: ```{r} require(epivizr) browseVignettes("epivizr") ``` ## A quick tour You can get a quick tour of epiviz here: [http://youtu.be/099c4wUxozA](http://youtu.be/099c4wUxozA) ## Non-blocking As of version 1.3, Epivizr supports a non-blocking workflow on both UNIX-like and Windows systems where data is served to the webapp without blocking the R/bioc interactive session. Make sure you are using the latest version of the [httpuv package](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httpuv/index.html) to use this. (Thanks to the [Rstudio](http://rstudio.org) folks for folding our daemonizing code into the main httpuv release). ## More info Check out the `epiviz` [project page on github](http:://github.com/epiviz), and the [documentation page](http://epiviz.github.io).