covidapp-shiny
A simple Shiny app to display and forecast COVID-19 daily cases (by analythium)
r-minimal
Minimal Docker images for R (by r-hub)
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| covidapp-shiny | r-minimal | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 26 | 149 | |
| - | 6.0% | |
| 0.0 | 8.6 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 7 days ago | |
| R | Shell | |
| MIT License | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
covidapp-shiny
Posts with mentions or reviews of covidapp-shiny.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-31.
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How to Host Shiny Apps on the DigitalOcean App Platform
On the next screen, leave the Type as Web Services, set the Run command to the CMD command of the Dockerfile that you are deploying (without the square brackets), and change the port to the one exposed by Docker (3838):
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Using systemd to Run Shiny Apps
# add group addgroup --system shiny # add new user and create home dir adduser --system --ingroup shiny shiny # change dir cd /home/shiny # change user to shiny sudo -u shiny -s # pull COVID app git clone https://github.com/analythium/covidapp-shiny.git
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Best Practices for R with Docker
Caching can be useful is when installing R package dependencies. In a previous post, we looked at how to use the renv package to install dependencies. Here is a simplified snippet from that Dockerfile:
r-minimal
Posts with mentions or reviews of r-minimal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-31.
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Best Practices for R with Docker
The base image is so bare-bones that it needs to install time zones, fonts and the Cairo device for ggplot2 to work (read the limitations here). Instead of apt you have apk and might have to work a bit harder to find all the Alpine-specific dependencies.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing covidapp-shiny and r-minimal you can also consider the following projects:
sysreqsdb - SystemRequirements mappings for R packages
r-docker - Docker images for R
rocker - R configurations for Docker
hadolint - Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell