Tracking Sessions/Users

[Haider Ali]

I don't think this has been asked, but is it possible to track unique users in Shiny using either some sort of unique session id or even ip address of the client. Is there any undocumented feature that lets you print any such information.

I wouldn't even be averse to tracking it myself in R code, but question is how do you identify traffic to a given websocket connection. vs another

Appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.

-Haider

[Joe Cheng]

With Shiny Server you can either use access_log to write web server log files, or google_analytics_id to automatically add Google Analytics tracking code. I recommend the latter.

http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server/blob/master/config.html

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[Haider Ali]

I thought about Google analytics - but I wonder if that will work for a shiny application hosted on a private network. Don't you have to register the url on the Google analytics site?

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[Joe Cheng]

I've never tried it but:

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1009688

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, Haider Ali wrote:

I thought about Google analytics - but I wonder if that will work for a shiny application hosted on a private network. Don't you have to register the url on the Google analytics site?

On Jan 22, 2013 9:18 PM, "Joe Cheng" <j...@rstudio.com> wrote:

With Shiny Server you can either use access_log to write web server log files, or google_analytics_id to automatically add Google Analytics tracking code. I recommend the latter.

http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server/blob/master/config.html

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, Haider Ali wrote:

I don't think this has been asked, but is it possible to track unique users in Shiny using either some sort of unique session id or even ip address of the client. Is there any undocumented feature that lets you print any such information.

I wouldn't even be averse to tracking it myself in R code, but question is how do you identify traffic to a given websocket connection. vs another

Appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.

-Haider

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[Christopher Peters]

Being able to grab the user's email address as context in an app would be useful. In my case, I've installed error handling that can log some form of user id. Being able to grab this from session$clientData context would let me log which user had an error.