Shiny's developers describe it as "an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R." Users need not have web development experience, nor do they need to write HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Instead, users construct the analysis and visualizations they desire as fairly standard R code from which Shiny will generate an interactive web version. In the Gallery section of the Shiny site, users can locate a variety of data dashboards that were created with Shiny. The Get Started section provides links to a number of written and video tutorials that demonstrate how to install and use the system. The Deploy section of the site discusses options and requirements for hosting web applications that were created with Shiny. Being an R package, Shiny requires R to run. It can be installed from CRAN by running `install.packages("shiny")` at an R console.