Shiny as Stand-Alone Program

Question

I wrote a Shiny app, and now I need to turn it into a Stand-Alone Program. The reasoning behind this is that I need to share the app but can't do this with shinyapps.io or a server as I need the app to be able to access user's folders. So far, I found these 2 tutorials: deploying-desktop-apps and packaging-your-shiny-app. Both of them (supposedly) work on Windows, but I have a Mac, and I want to app to be available for users of all systems, or at least Mac and Linux. Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated!

I actually tried to follow the tutorial mentioned above, and can't even install R-portable for my Mac. So I'm looking for something different.

Running a Virtual Machine to follow Windows tutorial is an option, but in this case, the app will be Windows-specific, and I don't want this.

Answer 1

This thread is really old I know, but I'm also trying to find answers on creating a standalone version of R for Mac.

This would support for https://github.com/chasemc/electricShine which supports Windows