testShinyHeroku

testing deploying a shiny app to heroku, notes to self

1. Get a heroku account
2. Create a new app
3. Choose deployment method Github
4. Allow heroku to access Github
5. Under settings add buildpack for R

http://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/heroku-buildpack-r.git#heroku-16

More info about the buildpack here

6. Create a new github repository for the shiny app
7. Create a run.R file containing the following:

library(shiny)

port <- Sys.getenv('PORT')

shiny::runApp(
  appDir = getwd(),
  host = '0.0.0.0',
  port = as.numeric(port)
)

8. Create an app.R file (or use the default one provided by Heroku)
9. push to github repo
10. Deploy branch on Heroku
11. view app