Sharing with the R community

Sharing with the R community is a little easier than with a general audience for two reasons:

• They can run the Shiny package within R and, therefore, use the Shiny functions designed to help distribute Shiny packages
• They are almost guaranteed to be reasonably knowledgeable about some of the processes that help you distribute an application, for example, unzipping directories

There are a few ways of sharing with R users running the Shiny package within R summarized in the following sections.

Sharing over GitHub

By far, the easiest way of sharing your creations with fellow R users is over GitHub (github.com). Of course, other R users can also use all the other methods in this chapter, but this is probably the most frictionless method (short of hosting the application) for both you and the end user.

An introduction to Git

You will no doubt have heard of Git (git-scm.com—the version control system that has collaborative sharing features at GitHub) even if you...