electricShine VS shinyapps-package-dependencies

You can use electricShine to turn a shiny app into a simple .exe installable. BUT, the project is dormant - you can get it working but you need to pay attention to the most recent issues and install particular commits.

I’ve had some joy with electricShine. Albeit, last time I tried I had to use a specific commit and ignore some of the documentation (it suggests using a golem style app but that package has moved on and it’s no longer compatible).

If you want something totally self contained that someone can install like a “normal” program, then try electricShine. I’ve had good success with this but some people struggle so, if it’s a route you want to go, give me a shout.

You can use electron to create a standalone shiny app, see https://chasemc.github.io/electricShine/, https://foretodata.com/how-to-make-a-standalone-desktop-application-with-shiny-and-electron-on-windows/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARrbbviGvjc

Have you looked into electricShine?

There's electricShine, which uses electron.js. And, I want to say there's a new R wrapper around the rust crate tauri, but I'm blanking on the name.

You can look into electricShine. It's supposed to be able to create desktop executable shiny apps. I haven't used it myself and have heard that it can be dependent on the system configuration that you are attempting to run it on, but if it works, it could match what you are looking for.

https://www.shinyapps.io

Pricing page mentions something about 'active hours', and if you're on 'free' or 'starter' tier, no more users can use the app until next month. Their pricing page doesn't mention anything about 'concurrent' users, but that error message might just be a legacy holdover?

Docker would potentially be an option. Look at https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned. There is also https://www.shinyapps.io/ if you would rather not host the app locally.

https://www.shinyapps.io is fairly simple to implement. (The actual shiny less so )

Yes. The lowest-effort path is going to be a subscription to shinyapps, which comes with basic authentication and some control over compute/memory allocation.

My experience was that it was unreliable. Bit sluggish, and sometimes the app would not start and I would have to restart computer and hope it would work. But I thought I would mention it as an option since it fit your description. Is there a reason why you cannot deploy it to https://www.shinyapps.io/ ?

R Shiny is the way. https://www.shinyapps.io/

Keep in mind that Shinyapps.io is a managed service and comes with some limitations regarding dependencies: required R packages need to be able to run on Ubuntu Linux and cannot rely on graphical display only (Tcl/Tk). Installing packages from Bioconductor needs the repositories set by setRepositories(). If a package has missing system dependencies, you can find available system packages here, or file an issue here.