An Example of Shiny Server on Amazon EC2

Sample

Twitch Top Hearthstone Streamer

Reference

1. https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server
2. http://davetang.org/muse/2014/01/03/using-shiny/
3. http://trestletechnology.net/2013/02/deploying-shiny-server-on-amazon-ec2/
4. http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/EC2/CreateFromScratch.html

Install

sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
wget http://download3.rstudio.org/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-0.4.0.8-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi shiny-server-0.4.0.8-amd64.deb
sudo su - \
-c "R -e \"install.packages('shiny', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""

configure

create directory

sudo mkdir /etc/shiny-server
sudo nano /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf

port

On Amazon EC2 instance, turn on the TCP port 3838 (security -> rules):

Start Server

sudo start shiny-server
sudo restart shiny-server

open http://<hostname>:3838/app_name

Example

The python web scraping script by Twitch API:

Troublesome

Package not found

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16065805/packages-missing-in-shiny-server?rq=1.

Compare the output of .libPaths() in both cases and adjust accordingly in the server instance / your script.

You may for example have the packages in “your” R package directory which the server cannot access. System-wide package installations are preferable in cases like this – and are e.g. the default on Debian / Ubuntu.

sudo R
install.package('plyr', .libPaths()[3])