Running shiny documents in Rstudio Server

I am setting up an Rstudio server and everything is going really well. I have run into a problem with running shiny applications though. When I run the default Old Faithful Shiny app, the apps is rendered greyed out with just the number of bins slider bar showing. Also, when I run the following Rmarkdown document, the viewer pane shows please wait and does not stop. I can render Rmarkdown files just fine, but nothing with runtime:shiny in the YAML header.

---
title: "Shiny Document"
output: html_document
runtime: shiny
---

```{r, echo=FALSE}
numericInput("rows", "How many cars?", 5)

renderTable({
  head(cars, input$rows)
})
```
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Anything in the shiny error logs?

I have the same problem with RStudio Desktop (v. 1.1.463 on Ubuntu 18.10).

Just a "Please wait" screen, whether in Viewe pane or the browser.

The R Markdown console prints:


  |.........                                                        |  14%
  ordinary text without R code

  |...................                                              |  29%
label: setup (with options) 
List of 1
 $ include: logi FALSE

  |............................                                     |  43%
  ordinary text without R code

  |.....................................                            |  57%
label: eruptions (with options) 
List of 1
 $ echo: logi FALSE

  |..............................................                   |  71%
  ordinary text without R code

  |........................................................         |  86%
label: tabsets (with options) 
List of 1
 $ echo: logi FALSE

  |.................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


/usr/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS /tmp/RtmpTnYAL5/shiny-document-test.utf8.md --to html4 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash+smart --output /tmp/RtmpTnYAL5/file24135dd3ef66.html --email-obfuscation none --standalone --section-divs --template /usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/default.html --no-highlight --variable highlightjs=1 --id-prefix section- --variable 'theme:bootstrap' --mathjax --variable 'mathjax-url:https://mathjax.rstudio.com/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML' 


processing file: shiny-document-test.Rmd
output file: /tmp/RtmpTnYAL5/shiny-document-test.knit.md


Output created: /tmp/RtmpTnYAL5/file24135dd3ef66.html