The free plan of shinyapps.io is pretty limited, but Google Colab provides quite decent machines for free. I tried to run the example shiny app created by RStudio in a Google Colab notebook, but it didn't work. Here's the app:
library(shiny)
# Define UI for application that draws a histogram
ui <- fluidPage(
# Application title
titlePanel("Old Faithful Geyser Data"),
# Sidebar with a slider input for number of bins
sidebarLayout(
sidebarPanel(
sliderInput("bins",
"Number of bins:",
min = 1,
max = 50,
value = 30)
),
# Show a plot of the generated distribution
mainPanel(
plotOutput("distPlot")
)
)
)
# Define server logic required to draw a histogram
server <- function(input, output) {
output$distPlot <- renderPlot({
# generate bins based on input$bins from ui.R
x <- faithful[, 2]
bins <- seq(min(x), max(x), length.out = input$bins + 1)
# draw the histogram with the specified number of bins
hist(x, breaks = bins, col = 'darkgray', border = 'white')
})
}
Then I ran
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server, options = list(host = "0.0.0.0"))
Which gives the output
Listening on http://0.0.0.0:7444
But then I can't open the webpage with I clicked on the http://0.0.0.0:7444
. Should the host be changed? Anyone also tried this?