Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Third Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about several methods to share your Shiny applications with the world. This process is very easy with fellow users of R, and a little harder with the whole internet; however you do it, I'm sure you'll agree that it was relatively painless and worth the effort. We discussed how to use Git and GitHub (and Gist), and how to use them to share your code and applications with other R users. We also looked at distributing Shiny applications manually or over FTP to R users using the .zip and .tar files. We covered hosting solutions to share your application with the whole internet, including Shiny apps, Shiny Server, and Amazon AWS. We went through the persistent data-storage options and how to use the dplyr, ...