Deploying Shiny Apps to Heroku with Docker From the Command Line

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  • heroku-buildpack-r

    Heroku buildpack for R - Makes deploying R on Heroku easy

  • Because R is not one of the officially supported languages for Heroku, Buildpacks for R are all community maintained and might lag (e.g. this one has R 3.4.3). This R Buildpack GitHub repository is quite recent and supports packrat or renv based workflows for Shiny and Plumber.

  • heroku-docker-r

    Heroku R Docker Image - Makes deploying R on Heroku easy

  • If any of your R packages dependend on system libraries which aren't > included by > Heroku, such as > libgmp, libgomp, libgdal, libgeos and libgsl, you should use > the Heroku container > stack > together with > heroku-docker-r > instead. – Maintainers of > heroku-buildpack-r

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  • install-git

  • You will need git to be installed locally to be able to make changes to the git repository we are going to create.

  • heroku-buildpack-nodejs

    Heroku's buildpack for Node.js applications.

  • An application (app) is the combination of its source code and the dependency description that determines how to build and run the application. The build mechanism is typically language-specific and is based on so-called Buildpacks.

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