Publish Rstudio Shiny App in intranet

Question

I am trying to build a Rstudio/Shiny App and post it in our intranet so that everyone else in our office could see it. I am a windows guy, and the instructions online about how to setup a shiny server within Linux environment is a bit difficult for me. Is there an easy way that I can could accomplish this goal without messing up with Linux. Even if I have to do so, is there an easy way to just have my webpage available to people within our company, not everyone on the internet. Thanks!

Answer 1

I am sharing apps using the following:

runApp(list(ui=ui, server=server), host="0.0.0.0", port=1234)

(if your ui.R and server.R are in the same file)

runApp("C:/shinyapp", host="0.0.0.0", port=1234)

(if you have an ui.R and a server.R files as 2 files in the shinyapp folder)

After, I send my IP followed by the port that I set up as an hyperlink. Assuming that my IP is 192.168.178.10, I will send:

http://192.168.178.10:1234

Monitoring a shiny app shared in my internal network

Answer 2

you don't need shiny server for this, you just need to run an R instance with shiny

http://rstudio.github.io/shiny/tutorial/#ui-and-server

http://shiny.rstudio.com/

shiny automatically runs it at local host... you need to change it to your own ip if you want your colleges be able to access it..

ip="192.168.178.10" # change this!
runApp("../microplate",host=ip) # change microplate to the name of your shiny package/app