Shiny Dashboard on Shiny Server Problems

[Jason Watts]

I am wrestling with runny shinydashboard on my Shiny server. It acts like the library isnt even installed. I need shinysignals installed and it isnt working. I need to know how install from github, through the linux terminal like the rest of the libraries were installed. I think this would fix the problem.

 

Has anyone succsefully ran a dashboard with the package shinydashboard installed? If so, could you get a short explanation of how you got it working.

 

Thank you.

[Joe Cheng]

When you install packages for Shiny Server, you need to install them either as the "shiny" user, or as root (which will install them system-wide). Otherwise, if you just install it when logged in as yourself, you're just installing it for you, not for the shiny user.

Here's how you would do it as root:

sudo su - -c "R -e \"install.packages('shinydashboard', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""

and here's how you would do it as shiny (I think):

sudo su shiny - -c "R -e \"install.packages('shinydashboard', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""

If you want to install from github, first do the above but with "devtools" instead of "shinydashboard". Then run one of these:

sudo su - -c "R -e \"devtools::install_github('hadley/shinySignals')\""  # as root

sudo su shiny - -c "R -e \"devtools::install_github('hadley/shinySignals')\""  # as shiny

Hope that helps.

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