Host an R shiny app as a function on AWS Lambda

[sbirchall]

I've never seen any documentation about this and I'm planning on trying it for myself and documenting it if it works.

But the question is, can you host an R Shiny app on just AWS Lambda? A dynamic app where a user can enter inputs, use reactives, render new plots...etc.

Say for example we have this function which is an R shiny app

binner <- function(var) {
  require(shiny)
  shinyApp(
    ui = fluidPage(
      sidebarLayout(
        sidebarPanel(sliderInput("n", "Bins", 5, 100, 20)),
        mainPanel(plotOutput("hist"))
      )
    ), 
    server = function(input, output) {
      output$hist <- renderPlot( 
        hist(var, breaks = input$n,
          col = "skyblue", border = "white") 
      )
    }
  )
}

We then call this function from any of the runtimes AWS Lambda supports such as Python, would this work?