Provide Explicit Instructions for Shiny Server Deployment

[DarioS]

The Shiny Server section of the Publishing documentation doesn't explain how to publish a tutorial. I uploaded a tutorial folder to the same location as other folders with ordinary Shiny applications are in. I was surprised when I couldn't access the tutorial by the HTTP URL ending in tutorial.html but it does work if the URL ends in tutorial.Rmd I would intuitively expect the HTML file should be used but there's no information about the tutorial folder structure in the section of the documentation I refer to or whether the Rmd file should be converted to HTML. Another colleague gave up on getting his tutorial to work via Shiny Server and ended up making an R package for it instead.

The Rmd file header is:

---
title: "Investigating Combinations of Variables"
output: learnr::tutorial
runtime: shiny_prerendered
---

[jjallaire]

@bborgesr Could you follow up on enhancing the documentation here?

@trestletech Where in the Shiny Server documentation should we refer to that describes Rmd app deployment more clearly?

[trestletech]

Hi @DarioS . Sorry for the confusion. We do have a short section on this behavior in the admin guide: http://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/#r-markdown

If you still have open questions after reading that section, please do let us know and we'll see how we can enhance the docs.

[DarioS]

That explains it. I wonder if a sentence could be added to the Deployment information on the learnr website, though. The Shiny Server administrator's manual isn't the most intuitive place to find such information.

[bborgesr]

@DarioS, is all the information you'd like to see in the learnr website contained in the link that @trestletech posted: http://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/#r-markdown ? If so, I can add that section relatively quickly to our website

[DarioS]

Yes, the last two paragraphs explain it clearly.

[bborgesr]

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