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Dockerizing Shiny Applications

Docker provides isolation to applications. Images are immutable. Running multiple instances of the same image can serve many users at the same time. All these general advantages of containerized applications apply to Shiny apps too.

6 min read May 7, 2021

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Run Shiny Apps Locally

Peter Solymos

The simplest way to run a Shiny app is to run it locally. You only need the shiny R package installed, and you can run the app in your browser.

5 min read Apr 23, 2021

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The Best Resources for Learning Shiny App Development

Peter Solymos

The Hosting Data Apps website is dedicated to help you learn about your hosting options. As outlined in the opening post, data app development related content is kept to a minimum. In this post we list resources that provide accessible introduction to Shiny app development.

1 min read Apr 16, 2021

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The Anatomy of a Shiny Application

Peter Solymos

Shiny lets you quickly build web applications using the R programming language. In this post I will walk you through how a Shiny application is structured. The goal is simply to have the most basic and dependency free app that we can deploy. Let's get going!

4 min read Apr 9, 2021