sh: R: command not found

[Lee Pang]

I'm doing some recovery testing on a RHEL server and I did a fresh install of shiny-server from the published rpms.

Prior to installing shiny-server I installed R 3.0.2 from source into /usr/local/bin

I've started shiny-server via the init.d script:

service shiny-server start

Shiny server appears to be working, navigating to

<host-ip>:3838/

shows the appropriate index

However, when I launch one of my test applications I get:

An error has occurred

The application failed to start.

The application exited during initialization.

sh: R: command not found

When I launch shiny-server as root from the terminal everything works fine.

Similarly, when I launch as a regular user (e.g. shiny or any other user) it works, as long as I make the appropriate log directory writable via group permissions.

Is there something I'm missing here?

[Lee Pang]

So it turns out that this is a simple path export issue.

The environment that the init.d/shiny-server script was being call in could no see /usr/local/bin

Adding the following line to the top of the script fixed the matter:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"