Deployment

• R scripts

  • GitHub
  • R Package
  • Docker container

• Webpage

  • Shinyapps.io
  • Shiny Server (Free)
  • Shiny Server Pro

• Automatically deploying to shinyapps.io

library(rsconnect)
rsconnect::setAccountInfo(name="username", token="HDFGT46YF7TDT6474G47", secret="hdgTDF5FStgdkpJ")
deployApp(appName="name")

• Shiny apps user guide https://docs.rstudio.com/shinyapps.io/index.html
• Shiny server guide https://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/

Interactive documents

• Shiny can run in RMarkdown documents. Set YAML runtime: shiny.

---
title: Interactive document
output: html_document
runtime: shiny
---

• Shiny widgets can be included directly

```{r}
selectInput('n_breaks',label='Number of bins:',choices=c(10,20,35,50),selected=20)
```

• Whole shiny apps can be included directly

```{r}
shinyApp(
  ui=fluidPage(),
  server=function(input,output) {}
)
```

• Hosted shiny apps can be embedded using <iframe>

<iframe src="https://user.shinyapps.io/app"></iframe>

Demo: shiny-rmarkdown.R

Extensions

• Naxstats: Repo collection all shiny extensions
• shinythemes: Bootswatch themes for shiny
• shinyurl: using URLs to recreate state of an app
• shinypod: Reusable modules
• shinyjs: custom javascript functionality
• shinyWidgets: Bootstrap 3 custom widgets
• shinyBS: Bootstrap 3 widgets