How to deploy a Shiny .Rmd file to shinyapps.io

Sfdude · May 13, 2019, 1:27am

Hi all,

I was able to previously deploy
the diamonds tutorial example files:
ui.R and server.R
to my shinyapps.io acct.
No problem!. That works!.

But now,
I'm trying to deploy a SHINY .RMD file
(created with the flexdashboard pkg),
to my shinyapps.io acct.

From this simple example in URL:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jtleek/3e1baac9a74ea81556c9e6d55743d7ea

nhanes-flexdashboard.Rmd

---
title: "How does your BMI measure up?"
output: flexdashboard::flex_dashboard
runtime: shiny
---

Inputs {.sidebar}
-------------------------------------

```{r}

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If I RUN this BMI.Rmd file locally in Rstudio,
it works great!.

Then to deploy to my shinyapps.io acct,
I click the ["Publish"] button
at the top-right of the locally running Shiny app.

A "Publish to Server" dialog box opens.

I enter: "BMI" as the Title.
Then I hit the [Publish] button
at the bottom of this dialog box.

The [Publish] button turns gray,
...and stays like that forever...
Nothing is deployed.

I must be missing something simple...
Help!

Rstudio 1.1.463 Linux

barret · May 14, 2019, 7:31pm

Long shot... Make sure the .Rmd is in it's own folder. RStudio IDE likes to believe it can upload anything in the same folder as the original document.

Sfdude · May 15, 2019, 11:46am

Thanks for the reply, Barret.

"...Make sure the .Rmd is in it's own folder...".
Do you mean that each .Rmd file should be:

(a) in a separate, unique Rstudio Project folder
(just by itself and for itself)?,
-or-
(b) simply located in a subfolder of an existing Project folder
(along with other regular R and data files)?.

Thanks! (sorry for the simple, conceptual question...).

barret · May 15, 2019, 7:29pm

For any Rmd that I deploy, I try to make sure it's in its own folder containing only the files necessary to produce the final output.

So, option (b).

Situation:

I download a .Rmd into my ~/Downloads folder: ~/Downloads/someFile.Rmd. My ~/Downloads folder will also contain many other files. When trying to deploy ~/Downloads/someFile.Rmd, I've seen RStudio IDE not like that. If I move the file to ~/Downloads/subfolder/someFile.Rmd where there are no other unnecessary files and try to deploy it, the IDE is snappy and it deploys great.

Sfdude · May 15, 2019, 7:51pm

Thanks
for the very clear explanation, Barret.

Will follow your guideline.

Have a great R day!.
SFdude

system · May 22, 2019, 7:51pm

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