/vagrant-shiny

Install a shiny server on a VM

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Install a shiny server

Preliminary test on a Virtual Machine

Set up Vagrant on MacOS

Using homebrew

brew install brew-cask
brew cask install virtualbox
brew cask install vagrant

Once install, init Ubuntu 14.04 vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64

Run it vagrant up

Connect to it

vagrant ssh

Terminate vagrant destroy

Install in VM Ubuntu

IMPORTANT

memory issue to install R package, must be at least 1 Gb RAM for shiny but 2 Gb for dplyr

Tweak the Vagrantfile

  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3838, host: 4001
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.memory = "2048"
  end

# install R
sudo echo "deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ #enabled-manually" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
# install R package shiny
sudo su - \
  -c "R -e \"install.packages(c('shiny', 'rmarkdown', 'dplyr'), repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""

# download utility to install local deb package 
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
# get latest version 
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-shiny-server-os-build/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/VERSION -O "version.txt"
VERSION=`cat version.txt`
wget "https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-shiny-server-os-build/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-$VERSION-amd64.deb" -O ss-latest.deb
# Install the latest SSO build
sudo gdebi -n ss-latest.deb

Manage shiny-server service

sudo {start, stop, restart, reload} shiny-server

Query status status shiny-server

Access the server

On the host machine, browser:

http://localhost:4001