hello-world-shiny

Goals

Install deps, run shiny app, via shiny server, behind nginx and with certbot/letsencrypt

Deps install shiny from a Ubuntu/Debian package:

sudo apt install r-cran-shiny

or install from source for advanced users (R and gcc is installed from OS package):

Rscript -e 'install.packages("shiny", repos="https://cran.rstudio.com/")'

Notes: 1GB ram is not enough if installing from source!

Run to test

Rscript -e "shiny::runApp('./src/', port=8080, host='0.0.0.0')"

From 0 to hero:

1. Byu VPS with latest ubuntu
2. Buy domain name
3. apt install nginx certbot-nginx
4. apt install r-cran-shiny
5. https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server#installing
6. upload your app in /srv/shiny-server/hello-world-shiny
7. setup shiny server for single app https://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/#host-a-single-application
8. nginx proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
9. nginx + certbot -d …your-domain…

Docker

docker build -t hello-world-shiny .
docker run -p 8080:8080 -it hello-world-shiny

Advanced:

• multiple shiny servers for concurency
• nginx cacheing https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-caching-guide/
• maybe https://www.shinyproxy.io/deployment/