Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Third Edition

Shinyapps.io

Shinyapps.io is RStudio's paid hosting for Shiny applications. At the time of writing, there is a tiered pricing structure, depending on the number of applications you wish to deploy, whether you need the authentication of users, the number of hours your applications will run per month, and so on. You can set up a free account that, at the time of writing, allows five applications and 25 hours of application runtime a month. This is welcome; however, it is only suitable for very small-scale use; a single tweet of your application on the #rstats hashtag is likely to bring enough traffic to your site to use all of the 25 hours in a very short time. Indeed, I have been linked to many shinyapps.io applications, which indicate that ...