Install R and shiny package
# R code
## install current version
install.packages("shiny", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
## install older version
packageurl <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/shiny/shiny_0.14.tar.gz"
install.packages(packageurl, repos=NULL, type="source")
# check Shiny version
library("shiny")
packageVersion("shiny")
Note that only shiny versions (CRAN) 0.12.0 - 0.14.2 are supported by jShiny server V0.94
If you are using other shiny versions from github or CRAN (>=0.14), see this Experimental feature
Verify if Java is installed and version
java -version
If proper Java version is missing, download Java 8 JRE or JDK ,and install and verify again.
Ubuntu and Debian users can use this PPA to download and install Java 8(JDK which contains JRE)
You can download releases: https://github.com/statsplot/jshinyserver/releases or the latest (dev): https://github.com/statsplot/jshinyserver/archive/master.zip. The zip and tar.gz files contain the source codes and compiled server files (source/Objects folder). These server files can be used directly (Linux/Mac/Windows)
Download the file and move it into a folder(e.g. D:\shiny), extract the file. All the server files are in the folder D:\shiny\{version}\source\Objects.
You can move all the server files to the target directory (e.g. D:\shiny\server)
Go to the config folder, open system_win.conf with plain text editor(e.g., ultraedit, notepad++ ). You need to set rbin .
Note : File separator should be /
#----- rbin [required] absolute path of R bin;
rbin = F:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.3/bin/x64/R.exe
...
Open the server folder. Double click start.bat. You will see a new command line window. If any error, the window will exit.
You have to check log server_cmd.log or server_output_{date time}.log if the server fail to start.
Now start a web browser and point it to http://{ip}:{port}/index.html {ip} is the host ip , {port} is the server port
If web browser is on the same host, the default url should be http://127.0.0.1:8888/index.html
Close the command line Windows.
Or double click stop.bat (It will also stop the running R instances started by the server.).
Install with script: https://github.com/statsplot/jshinyserver/blob/master/ins_jshinyserver.sh
Or Download, and install:
Download the file and move it into a folder(e.g. /opt/shiny/download), extract the file. All the server files are in the folder /opt/shiny/download/{version}/source/Objects.
You can move all the server files to the target directory (e.g. /opt/shiny/server) or create a soft link for this folder.
ln -s /opt/shiny/download/{version}/source/Objects /opt/shiny/server
Find absolute path of R bin.
which R
/usr/bin/R is the default value, if your path is not the same as this one, you need to edit system_linux.conf or system_mac.conf in the config folder with plain text editor. You need to set rbin.
INS_PATH=/opt/shiny
linux: nano ${INS_PATH}/server/config/system_linux.conf
mac: nano ${INS_PATH}/server/config/system_mac.conf
#----- rbin absolute path of R bin
rbin = /usr/bin/R
...
In terminal
INS_PATH=/opt/shiny
# first argument should be the absolute path to the server folder, if not provided default value (`/opt/shiny/server`) will be used
/bin/sh ${INS_PATH}/server/start.sh ${INS_PATH}/server
You have to check server log server_cmd.log or server_output_{date time}.log if the server fail to start.
INS_PATH=/opt/shiny
cd ${INS_PATH}/server/logs
tail server_cmd.log
tail server_output_{date time}.log
Now start a web browser and point it to http://{ip}:{port}/index.html {ip} is the host ip , {port} is the server port
If web browser is on the same host, the default url should be http://127.0.0.1:8888/index.html
INS_PATH=/opt/shiny
# first argument should be the absolute path to the server folder, if not provided default value (/opt/shiny/server) will be used
/bin/sh ${INS_PATH}/server/stop.sh ${INS_PATH}/server
It will also stop the running R instances started by the server.