user1693885 :
a bit of a late answer: it is possible to host a shiny app on Windows. \n\nuse the following run.R script below, start it as a job on the windows machine.\nDo make sure that the port (below 1234) is open in the local firewall.\n\nEnjoy!\n\nrequire(shiny)\nfolder_address = 'H:/path to app'\n\nx <- system(\"ipconfig\", intern=TRUE)\nz <- x[grep(\"IPv4\", x)]\nip <- gsub(\".*? ([[:digit:]])\", \"\\\\1\", z)\nprint(paste0(\"the Shiny Web application runs on: http://\", ip, \":1234/\"))\n\nrunApp(folder_address, launch.browser=FALSE, port = 1234, host = ip)\n",
2017-06-16T08:56:14
Paul Hiemstra :
From the Shiny website:\n\n\n You'll need a Linux server, with the following prerequisites\n installed:\n \n Node.js 0.8.16 or later For Ubuntu, we have found these instructions\n to work well. For Red Hat/CentOS, we recommend installing from source.\n R 2.15 or later Shiny R package, installed into the machine-wide site\n library. This is one easy way to do that: sudo su - -c \"R -e\n \\\"install.packages('shiny', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\\\"\"\n\n\nYou cannot natively host Shiny apps on a Windows machine right now. Running a virtual machine with Linux might be a good alternative.",
2013-04-17T05:50:22