Shiny Server does not start and returns Trace/breakpoint trap

Question

I thought I had successfully installed Shiny Server on my Debian Wheezy (Raspbian). I got no errors in the cmake and all other required packages were also installed. I followed the instruction on Building Shiny Server from Source. If I enter shiny-server I see a long log followed byTrace/breakpoint trap. One error that occurs says: var OutOfCapacityError = 0x2e608091 <undefined> I stored the log here Any ideas on what causes this?

Answer 1

I got Shiny Server running on a Ubuntu image on my RPi. The (8GB) image is available here: https://github.com/trestletech/RpiR#images . Though I happen to work for RStudio, this is certainly not an officially supported architecture/environment.

You'll not it's hosted on the RpiR package, which is an R interface to the WiringPi library that allows you to do digital/analog reading and writing on the Rpi's GPIO pins.

I unfortunately did not document the process of installing very well, so I don't have much guidance for you in getting started. There are a couple of known issues on Shiny Server with Debian in general (you'll not that it's not officially supported), so Ubuntu is probably going to be an easier starting point, but there were a few other hacks I had to take along the way that I didn't record, unfortunately.

If there's sufficient interest, I can try to recreate the steps in a more reproducible way so you can use more than just this one image.