R Shiny Server

Setting up and maintaining R Shiny Server

Details:

• Shiny allows for interactive web apps to be built through R. Client wanted a Shiny server accessible from the web.
• Given an existing Shiny application, determined the necessary dependencies
• Created a Docker environment that installed R and shiny, then installed the necessary R package dependencies
• Helped support maintenance of Shiny application and migrated from the original Windows environement to the Docker Linux environment
• Created an example Shiny app that used the Web File System Access API to retrieve directory listings and files in those directories.