Chapter 7. Sharing Your Creations
Having made all of these wonderfully intuitive and powerful applications, you are quite naturally going to want to show them off. You may wish to share them with colleagues or members of the worldwide R community. You may wish to share them with individuals in your department or field who, while not R users, can handle a little bit of effort to get an application working. Or you may wish to share them transparently and freely with the whole world by hosting them on a server.
Shiny offers quite a lot of approaches to sharing applications, and you'll be glad to hear that even the most complex should not be too taxing with the right hardware and OS on your server. In this chapter, we will take a look at the following:
- Sharing your work with R users using Gist or GitHub
- Using
.zipand.tarfiles locally or over the Internet to share an application - Sharing over the Web using free and paid-for hosting and technologies from Rstudio
- Reusing data across...
