RCy3, Cytoscape connection through shiny web app.

[HizJ]

Hello,

Firstly I just want to say thanks for all the help the community has given me in the past few months!

I am currently creating a shiny app which outputs a Cytoscape graph via Rcy3 commands. 

My app works well when I run it locally in RStudio and a graph is outputted to Cytoscape on my desktop. 

However if I publish my app I think the connection is no longer made to my desktop Cytoscape and no graph is produced. I was wondering is there a way to produce the graph through a shiny web app ?

Thanks and best wishes 

[Scooter Morris]

Greetings,

  You are correct that the issue is the connection to Cytoscape.  For an RShiny graph, I would recommend setting up a docker container.  You can read about setting up Cytoscape within a docker container here: https://github.com/cytoscape/docker-cytoscape-desktop/blob/master/README.md

-- scooter