Pass variables to shiny app?

shiny
1

I want to bundle a shiny app in one of my package, and I want the function that call the shiny app to take some variables as input and pass it to the app.

This is the function that I created to call my shiny app:

MyShinyApp <- function(username, password, workspace) {
  shiny::runApp(system.file('MyShinyApp', package='MyPackage'))
}

Alas, I cannot figure out how to pass those variables to the shiny app. I tried adding them to the runApp command and to shinyServer( function(input, output, session) but it didn't work.

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

2

I'm not sure if there is a better way, but this does the trick.

MyShinyApp <- function(username, password, workspace) {
  .GlobalEnv$.username <- username
  .GlobalEnv$.password <- password
  .GlobalEnv$.workspace <- workspace
  on.exit(rm(list=c(.username, .password, .workspace), envir=.GlobalEnv))
  shiny::runApp(system.file('MyShinyApp', package='MyPackage'))
}

And then I use the global variables inside my app.