Author: Antonia Miruna Oprescu Setup instructions: To run this app locally, you need R and RStudio. From R or RStudio, install and load the following packages: install.packages(c("shiny", "XML")) library(shiny) You can start the app from the directory containing the ui.R and server.R files with: runApp(".") Alternatively, you can start the app from a different directory with: runApp(appDir) If you are running on Windows, you must make sure you have zip capabilities enabled. The easiest way to ensure this is to install RTools from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ and then uncomment line 3 from server.R .