R Programming By Example

Sharing your newly created application

Although Shiny applications end up as HTML files you can't simply copy them to your server. They require a Shiny server, just like the one we have been working with through this chapter. There are two ways to run Shiny applications (as any other application), locally or remotely. Locally means that you fire up an R installation with Shiny and the required dependencies, and run it just as we have been doing during this chapter. Remotely means that you can access it through a website, which can be very cool and convenient at times.

To run locally you need to have the files for the application in the computer that will execute them. There are many ways to do so, but the most common one is to upload them ...