This script assumes you have a pretty clean Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install.
We will:
- Add the official R 4.0 respository
- Add the APT keys for this repository
- Install R (r-base and r-base-dev)
- Download and install RStudio Server
- Install and configure nginx (more on this below)
- Install the shiny R package
- Download and install Shiny Server
- Configure Shiny Server (more on this below)
Once complete you'll have:
- nginx default home page being served on port 80 (http://127.0.0.1)
- RStudio Server being served on port 8787 and also as a virtual directory (http://127.0.0.1:8787 & http://127.0.0.1/rstudio)
- Shiny Server being served on port 3838 and also as a virtual directory (http://127.0.0.1:3838 & http://127.0.0.1/shiny)
- Shiny Server is being run as the user that installed it (little bit weird but makes it easy for the user)
- Shiny Server is being run out of the users home directory (~/shiny) (little bit weird but makes it easy for the user)
- Shiny Server can host multiple apps and will present an initial index page, an index entry gets created for every folder in ~/shiny (If you only want to host a single app then just delete the sample app folder in ~/shiny and publish your application directly into there)
Simply download and run the install-rstudioshinynginx.sh script. This should be as simple as:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jb2cool/RStudioShiny-nginx/main/install-rstudioshinynginx.sh
bash install-rstudioshinynginx.sh
Occasionally you'll want to update to newer versions of R, RStudio Server, Shiny Server and nginx. R and nginx would likely have already been updated by your regular update schedule on your machine but since RStudio Server and Shiny Server were downloaded and installed manually these need a more manual approach to update them. Use the update script to update to the latest versions of all programs. Simply download and run the update-rstudioshinynginx.sh script. This should be as simple as:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jb2cool/RStudioShiny-nginx/main/update-rstudioshinynginx.sh
bash update-rstudioshinynginx.sh
- The install script will overwrite your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default file, if you have already made customisations to this file ensure you have a backup.
- The install script manually creates your R personal library, this shouldn't have any impact if you already have a personal library but it's untested.
- This is designed for ease-of-use on a single-user machine, if this is a multi-user machine then this is probably not the approach to take.