new module: shinyngs/static_exploratory

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[pinin4fjords]

I've been building some exploratory analysis plots (useful for gene expression) built on common functions developed for shinyngs. These include:

• Boxplots/ distribution plots
• 2D/ 3D PCA
• Sample dendrograms
• ...

These can be built in static form with ggplot2 or more interactive form with plotly.

In this case Shinyngs is just providing some useful shortcut fuctions, and the biocontainer (there's no shiny going on). The script I want to wrap (probably with some improvements) is in a private repo, but not confidential, so I'm attaching it here. Alternatively we could provide the plotting functions directly in the template and not use shinyngs?

I imagine this script being wrapped as a template, very similar to #2167.

exploratory_plots.r.zip