electricShine VS shinyjs

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.

Also, if you want to show/hide a box depending on a parameter, you can observe whether the parameter is present or not, then simply show/hide the box with the shinyjs package.

Have a look at shinyjs. https://deanattali.com/shinyjs/ https://github.com/daattali/shinyjs#overview-main There you can specify which blocks of ui are hidden from the start, you can enable and disable inputs, show and hide, and much more.

Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, htmlwidgets, and JavaScript actions.