Shiny meets Electron: Turn your Shiny app into a standalone desktop app in no time
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering how to deploy an R Shiny app as a standalone desktop application without a server or an R install.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What it is
A 20-minute useR 2018 talk from the R Consortium channel in which the Columbus Collaboratory team shows how to wrap a Shiny app with R Portable and Electron so it ships as a standalone desktop executable. It covers what Electron is, compares deployment options, walks through setup, and presents an enterprise example that automated a weekly Excel report.
What people said
Strong rec p0bs · 2018-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Deploying R shiny app as a standalone application”
There is now a way to turn a Shiny app into a standalone Electron app (which is a desktop app, used for apps like Slack). To find out more, see this excellent presentation (YouTube) [this video] from useR 2018, which contains further links: GitHub ColumbusCollaboratory: electron-quick-start [LINK] GitHub ColumbusCollaboratory: Photon [LINK] . RStudio Add-in to build Shiny apps utilizing the Electron framework @TravisHinkelman's blog [LINK] "Deploying a Shiny app as a desktop application with Electron"
Cites Max Feinberg · 2019-06 · Stack Overflow · on “R Shiny App on an iPad in Internet Denied Locations”
I currently have a number of Shiny Apps that I've developed that I'm looking to deploy on different platforms. I'm struggling with the problem of deploying a Shiny App (or some derivative of it) to an iPad that does not have internet access. Although it is possible to create a separate app for this purpose, most likely with React-Native, I'm trying to find a way to recycle as much code as possible. Thus far, I've explored using tools to run the Shiny App as an electron application using R Shiny Electron ( [LINK] ). More background is provided here [this video] . I was successfully able to use this tool to run my app with Electron but I realize that running Electron on an iPad is not feasible. I w
Cites Arthur Yip · 2020-04 · Stack Overflow · on “possible to run RShiny app without opening an R environment?”
There's now a new way to use to build a truly stand-alone Shiny app exe via "Electron" and "Photon". See following links for packages/plug-ins, etc. [LINK] [this video] Deploying R shiny app as a standalone application [LINK] That said, RStudio's shinyapps.io or a Binder deployment is likely a better choice in accessibility and development.