shinybg

Overview

Run and manage Shiny applications as background processes.

With shinybg you can:

• launch a Shiny application without locking your current R session
• run multiple applications at once
• embed application in Jupyter notebooks

Installation

shinybg is currently under active development and is not yet available on CRAN. You can install the development version from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("tiledb-inc/shinybg", remotes::github_release())

Usage

Basic app management

Create two instances of the same app on ports 3001 and 3002.

app <- system.file("apps/sever-info-app.R", package = "shinybg")
app1 <- runBackgroundApp(appFile = app, port = 3001)
app2 <- runBackgroundApp(appFile = app, port = 3002)

Jupyter integration

You can test out embedding Shiny applications in a Jupter notebook using the provided [Dockerfile][]. Pre-built images are available on Docker Hub or you can build it yourself by running:

docker build -t tiledb/shinybg:latest .

Next, run the container, forwarding ports 8888 for the Jupyter server and 3000 for the embedded Shiny app.

docker run --rm \
  -p 8888:8888 \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e JUPYTER_ENABLE_LAB=yes \
  -v $PWD/dev:/home/jovyan/work \
  tiledb/shinybg:latest

Within the Jupyter environment, launch an R-kernel Jupyter notebook and paste the following chunk into the first cell:

library(shiny)
library(shinybg)

renderShinyApp(
    appFile = system.file("apps/sever-info-app.R", package = "shinybg")
)

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