By gluc
In this beginner’s level tutorial, you’ll learn how to install Shiny Server on an AWS cloud instance, and how to configure the firewall. It will take just a few minutes!
Why?
Playing around with Shiny is simple enough: all you need is is the R package called shiny, which you can get directly from CRAN.
Making your work available to you mentor is also straight forward: open an account on shinyapps.io, and deploy your application directly from RStudio.
Blogging about your Shiny app is a different story: you might have hundreds of hits in a day, and soon enough your application will hit the max hours available for free on shinyapps.io. As a result, your app will stop working.
Another situation in which you might want to deploy your own Shiny server is if you need access to a database behind a firewall (see Shiny Crud), or if you want to restrict access to your app to people within your sub net (e.g. within your intranet).
Prerequisites
This tutorial builds on the following tutorial: Setting up an AWS instance for R, RStudio, OpenCPU, or Shiny Server. So we assume that you have a working AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance with a recent version of R installed.
Also, if you are interested in Shiny in general, I recommend this introductory post.
Other References and Links
Shiny Server Open Source is free, and has extensive documentation. However, getting started is not so easy, as it is not always clear which documents apply to Shiny Server Pro (the commercial offering) or Shiny Server Open Source.
The official installation instruction from RStudio, the company behind Shiny, can be found at this link.
And here is a similar guide for digitalocean, a competitor of AWS.
Installing Shiny Server Open Source
This section is not depending on AWS. So I am assuming you have a running Ubuntu instance, and you …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com