INTRO

MATERIALS & METHODS

Followed this guide:

https://fortune9.netlify.app/2023/06/30/tutorial-how-to-install-shiny-server-on-ubuntu-22-04/

Made some deviations, as that guide is for an older version of Ubuntu than what we have currently have installed on Raven (Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS).

sudo apt -y install libssl-dev libxml2-dev libmariadb-dev-compat libmariadb-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev

sudo su - -c "R -e \"install.packages('shiny', repos='https://cran.rstudio.com/')\""

wget https://download3.rstudio.org/ubuntu-20.04/x86_64/shiny-server-1.5.23.1030-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi shiny-server-1.5.23.1030-amd64.deb

Server is currently set up and running. Can be accessed here:

http://raven.fish.washington.edu:3838/

Important

To access off-campus, you’ll need to have the Husky OnNet VPN active.

Then, you’d want to make a directory for your shiny apps here:

/srv/shiny-server/

E.g. /srv/shiny-server/sr320-amazing-shiny-apps/

Then, put your shiny app stuff in there and access at:

http://raven.fish.washington.edu:3838/sr320-amazing-shiny-apps

That address would provide a directory listing of your different shiny apps.

Alternatively, you could create single, dedicated directories for each different app you want.

Each would be accessed like so: