ShinyTron

(2023.07) - Automatic creation of standalone desktop applications with R-Shiny and Electron. Dead easy!

MIT License

Citation:

Ress, Simon (2023). ShinyTron: Automatic creation of standalone desktop applications with R-Shiny and Electron. R package
  version 0.1.0, <https://github.com/SimonRess/ShinyTron>.

BibTeX entry for LaTeX users:

  @Manual{,
    title = {ShinyTron: Automatic creation of standalone desktop applications with R-Shiny and Electron},
    author = {Simon Ress},
    year = {2023},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    url = {https://github.com/SimonRess/ShinyTron},
  }

The above copyright notice shall be included in all copies, substantial portions of the Software, and other artefacts made with ShinyTron**.

Overview

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Installation

# The easiest way to get shinytron will be (*not working yet since it is not released to cran now*):
install.packages("shinytron")

# Alternatively, install dplyr from github:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install.github("https://github.com/SimonRess/ShinyTron")

Development version

To get a bug fix or to use a feature from the development version, you can install the development version of shinytron from GitHub.

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install.github("https://github.com/SimonRess/ShinyTron")

Usage

library(shinytron)

# Building an standalone app from an R-Shiny app saved in ./Desktop/"App Name"
Build_App(path=file.path(Sys.getenv("USERPROFILE"),"Desktop"),
          app.name = "App Name",
          app.description="App Description",
          timeout=300,
          nodejs_path="C:/Program Files/nodejs/")

Getting help

If you encounter a clear bug, please file an issue with a minimal reproducible example on GitHub.