Is there a way to use .Rprofile in shiny apps?

[Dean Attali]

Hi all,

I like to set special `options()` in my .Rprofile, such as API tokens, so that in my code when I want to eg. connect to a database, I can just use the options instead of hardcoding values. I was wondering if there's a way to set an .Rprofile for apps in shinyapps.io?

[Yihui Xie]

Have you tried it? At least .Renviron in the app root directory worked
for me a few months ago on ShinyApps.io, but I'm not sure if it still
works, or if .Rprofile is also supported.

Regards,
Yihui
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[Dean Attali]

Thanks Yihui, I should clarify that I meant it more as "is there a way to have a global .Rprofile, not app-specific"

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[Tareef Kawaf]

Not really, no, shinyapps.io presumes that every application is isolated from every other application. 

It might be interesting to consider some files that we will "globally place" in each application for you, but it honestly hasn't come up before now.

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[Dean Attali]

That's fair, I'm not necessarily requesting this feature, just wanted to know if it's possible because there are some global options I use in multiple shiny apps on my shiny server and just wanted to see if I can have a global rprofile on shinyapps as well or not. It's not a big deal to have to replicate it per application, that's maybe the more correct way since shinyapps is intended more to host specific apps than a bundle of them together.

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[Tareef Kawaf]

Yes, exactly.  Things are much easier to scale if they are isolated from each other.