

The most commonly used table widgets in Shiny are DT and rhandsontable. Don’t worry! It is super easy to implement and extend them using Shiny. What may still prevent you from switching from Excel to a more advanced Shiny dashboard is the fear of missing the beloved Excel functionalities to work with table-like data. You’re probably aware of Shiny’s cool interactive plot and charts features that are well ahead of what you can do in Excel.

In this post, we present 8 Shiny alternatives for the table-like data that are better than Excel.Ĭan’t decide between Tableau and R Shiny? Our detailed comparison might simplify the decision. What’s more, transferring your Excel sheet to an R Shiny app can be the easiest way to create an enterprise-ready dashboard.

Switching to a more sophisticated data analysis tool or dashboard is often a great solution to these limitations. Excel has its limitations regarding advanced statistics and calculations, quality and version control, user experience, and scalability.
