I built a Docker Image for an R Shiny App and ran the corresponding container with Docker Toolbox on Windows 10 Home. When trying to open the App with my web browser, only the index is shown. I don't know why the app isn't executed.
The log shows me this:
*** warning - no files are being watched ***
[2019-08-12T15:34:42.688] [INFO] shiny-server - Shiny Server v1.5.12.1 (Node.js v10.15.3)
[2019-08-12T15:34:42.704] [INFO] shiny-server - Using config file "/etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf"
[2019-08-12T15:34:43.100] [INFO] shiny-server - Starting listener on http://[::]:3838
I already specified the app host-to-container path by executing the following command which refers to a docker hub image:
docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 -v /C/Docker/App/:/srv/shinyserver/ -v /C/Docker/shinylog:/var/log/shiny-server/ didsh123/ps_app:heatmap
My Docker File looks like the following:
# get shiny serves plus tidyverse packages image
FROM rocker/shiny-verse:latest
# system libraries of general use
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
sudo \
pandoc \
pandoc-citeproc \
libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
libcairo2-dev \
libxt-dev \
libssl-dev \
libssh2-1-dev
##Install R packages that are required--> were already succesfull
RUN R -e "install.packages(c('shinydashboard','shiny', 'plotly', 'dplyr', 'magrittr'))"
#Heatmap related packages
RUN R -e "install.packages('gpclib', type='source')"
RUN R -e "install.packages('rgeos', type='source')"
RUN R -e "install.packages('rgdal', type='source')"
# copy app to image
COPY ./App /srv/shiny-server/App
# add .conf file to image/container to preserve log file
COPY ./shiny-server.conf /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
##When run image and create a container, this container will listen on port 3838
EXPOSE 3838
###Avoiding running as root --> run container as user instead
# allow permission
RUN sudo chown -R shiny:shiny /srv/shiny-server
# execute in the following as user --> imortant to give permission before that step
USER shiny
##run app
CMD ["/usr/bin/shiny-server.sh"]
So when I address the docker ip and the assessed port in the browser, the app should run there, but only the index is displayed. I use the following line:
http://192.168.99.100:3838/App/
I'm glad for every hint or advice. I'm new to Docker, so I'm also happy for detailed explanations.
To use shiny with docker, I suggest you use the golem package. golem provides a framework for builing shiny apps. If you have an app developed according to their framework, the function golem::add_dockerfile() can be used to create dockerfiles automatically.
If you are not interested in a framework, You can still have a look at the source for add_dockerfile() to see how they manage the deployment. Their strategy is to use shiny::runApp() with the port argument. Therefore, shiny-server is not necessary in this case.
The Dockerfile in golem looks roughly like this
FROM rocker/tidyverse:3.6.1
RUN R -e 'install.packages("shiny")'
COPY app.R /app.R
EXPOSE 3838
CMD R -e 'shiny::runApp("app.R", port = 3838, host = "0.0.0.0")'
This will make the app available on port 3838. Of course, you will have to install any other R packages and system dependencies.
Additional tips
To increase reproducibility, I would suggest you use remotes::install_version() instead of install.packages().
If you are going to deploy several applications with similar dependencies (for example shinydashboard), it makes sense to write your own base image that can be used in place of rocker/tidyverse:3.6.1. This way, your builds will be much quicker.
Minimal Reproducible Example
Create an empty directory (can be called anything you want)
Inside it, create two things:
i. A file called Dockerfile
ii. An empty directory called app
Place your shiny app inside the directory called app.
Your shiny app can be a single app.R file, or, for older shiny apps, ui.R and server.R. Either way is fine (see here for more on that).
If unsure about any of the above, just copy the files found here.
Place this in Dockerfile
FROM rocker/shiny:latest
COPY ./app/* /srv/shiny-server/
CMD ["/usr/bin/shiny-server"]
In the terminal, cd to the root of the empty directory you created in step 1, and build the image with
docker build -t shinyimage .
Run the container with
docker run -p 3838:3838 shinyimage
Finally, visit this url to see your shiny app: http://localhost:3838/
Here's a copy of all of the above in case anything's unclear.
Check the logs for any useful information? And exec into the container to verify if the App content is copied to the correct location.
Because the way /App content is copied looks incorrect
The content of /App is copied into the image to /srv/shiny-server/App during the build phase and you are trying to override /srv/shiny-server content using -v option when running the container.
Looks like during runtime the App data copied is being overwritten.
Try without -v /C/Docker/App/:/srv/shinyserver/ or use -v /C/Docker/App/:/srv/shinyserver/App/
docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 -v /C/Docker/shinylog:/var/log/shiny-server/ didsh123/ps_app:heatmap
Related
I use the geospatial rocker2 image to deploy Rstudio for development and a Shiny app for production. By using a single image, I have a consistent package library, credentials and database connections. I would like to use this same image to serve a plumber API.
Using the standard plumber.R example and the standard plumber Docker example I have tried to serve it as follows:
docker run -v `pwd`/app/plumber.R:/plumber.R --name plumber --restart=unless-stopped \
-p 8000:8000 my_rocker2_fork/geospatial Rscript /plumber.R
Success, kind of. The plumber.R file is clearly being sourced, but it is not being "plumbed":
Another issue is that the container continually restarts (this is the output of docker ps - please ignore the node.js container running):
One more oddity is that port 8000 isn't shown. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I think this is related to the restarting behaviour.
My code isn't plumbed, because I don't have the Entrypoint that is standard in the rstudio/plumber Dockerfile, and I don't think I want this Entrypoint, as it may cause issues with Rstudio Server and the Shiny app that are also in this image. Therefore, I think it is probably optimal to "plumb" by expanding the Rscript command at the end of my Docker run statement:
docker run -v `pwd`/app/plumber.R:/plumber.R -p 8000:8000 my_rocker2_fork/geospatial \
'Rscript pr("/plumber.R") %>% pr_run(port = 8000)' &
However, this fails because of all the special characters (like the pipe operator). How can I serve plumber code with an arbitrary Dockerfile without an Entrypoint?
The answer is simple! Call a script that sets the plumbing in motion, e.g.
docker run -v `pwd`/app/plumb_start.R:/plumb_start.R -p 8000:8000 my_rocker2_fork/geospatial \
Rscript plumb_start.R
Where plumb_start.R contains:
pr("plumber.R") %>% pr_run(port=8000)
Make sure that you also expose port 8000 in the Dockerfile.
I have a code of 200 lines in R for shiny app which works perfect when I run from RStudio , while I have to Dockerize the app but when I run docker version of the app , I only see Hello-World app on localhost but not the actual code. I see inside container there are some extra files which docker always copies which is the problem, Can someone help me out ?
this is Dockerfile
FROM rocker/shiny:3.5.1
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libv8-3.14-dev -y &&\
mkdir -p /var/lib/shiny-server/bookmarks/shiny
# Download and install library
RUN R -e "install.packages(c("library(shiny)","shinydashboard","xlsx", "V8"))"
# copy the app to the image
COPY app /srv/shiny-server/
# make all app files readable (solves issue when dev in Windows, but building in Ubuntu)
RUN chmod -R 755 /srv/shiny-server/
EXPOSE 3838
CMD ["/usr/bin/shiny-server.sh"]
Thanks
Thanks
You could copy additional files / folders individually, e.g.:
COPY modules /srv/shiny-server/modules
COPY R /srv/shiny-server/R
COPY *.R /srv/shiny-server/
COPY www /srv/shiny-server/www
Not sure, but are you copying your shiny-server.sh file over? I usually run my dockerized Shiny Apps with:
CMD ["Rscript", "-e", "shiny::runApp('/srv/shiny-server/', host='0.0.0.0', port=3838)"]
The dockerization process of an R shiny app is done through rocker/shiny image. I require to run the dockerization on an R shiny app from a windows system. The only problem is that rocker/shiny used for this process is a Linux based container. Therefore, I am unable to generate an image that runs on my windows system. Utilization of an external VPS or VM is not an option for me due to security reasons.
I have tried writing a docker file that would run for windows, but the problem is that the container is Linux based.
My Dockerfile
FROM rocker/r-ver:3.5.1
#installing R libraries
RUN R -e "install.packages(c('shiny', 'shinydashboard'), repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')"
# Copy configuration files into the Docker image
COPY shiny-server.conf /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
COPY /app/srv/shiny-server/
# Make the ShinyApp available at port 80
EXPOSE 80
#Copy further configuration files into the Docker image
COPY shiny-server.sh /usr/bin/shiny-server.sh
CMD ['Rscript', 'app_run.R']
(original documentation mentions a .sh file which is not running on my system
because of the Linux windows file path issues)
After running there 2 commands I expect my shiny app to run on localhost:8080
Get-Content Dockerfile | docker build -
docker run --name DOCKERapp -p 8080:8080 <image_name>
The base in your dockerfile is rocker/r-ver:3.5.1 and the based of this image is debian. You can check here:
https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/r-ver/dockerfile
So in your dockerfile you need to use linux commands. You don't need to use windows commands.
I'm trying to put my shiny app in docker container. My shiny app works totally fine on my local computer. But after dockerize my shiny app, I always have error message on my localhost like The application failed to start. The application exited during initialization..
I have no idea why that happens. I'm new to docker. How can I find the error logs when I run the docker image? I need the log to know what goes wrong.
Here is my dockfile:
# Install R version 3.6
FROM r-base:3.6.0
# Install Ubuntu packages
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
sudo \
gdebi-core \
pandoc \
pandoc-citeproc \
libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
libcairo2-dev/unstable \
libxt-dev \
libssl-dev
# Download and install ShinyServer (latest version)
RUN wget --no-verbose https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-shiny-server-os-build/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/VERSION -O "version.txt" && \
VERSION=$(cat version.txt) && \
wget --no-verbose "https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-shiny-server-os-build/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-$VERSION-amd64.deb" -O ss-latest.deb && \
gdebi -n ss-latest.deb && \
rm -f version.txt ss-latest.deb
# Install R packages that are required
# TODO: add further package if you need!
RUN R -e "install.packages(c( 'tidyverse', 'ggplot2','shiny','shinydashboard', 'DT', 'plotly', 'RColorBrewer'), repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')"
# Copy configuration files into the Docker image
COPY shiny-server.conf /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
COPY /app /srv/shiny-server/
# Make the ShinyApp available at port 80
EXPOSE 80
# Copy further configuration files into the Docker image
COPY shiny-server.sh /usr/bin/shiny-server.sh
CMD ["/usr/bin/shiny-server.sh"]
I built image and ran like below:
docker build -t myshinyapp .
docker run -p 80:80 myshinyapp
Usually the logs for any (live or dead) container can be found by just using:
docker logs full-container-name
or
docker logs CONTAINERID
(replacing the actual ID of your container)
As first said, this usually works as well even for stopped (not still removed) containers, which you can list with:
docker container ls -a
or just
docker ps -a
However, sometimes you won't even have a log, since the container was never created at all (which I think, by experience, fits more to your case)
And it can be happening simply because the docker engine is unable to allocate all of the resources that your service definition is requiring to have available.
The application failed to start. The application exited during initialization
is usually reflect of your docker engine being unable to get the required resources.
And the most common case for that, is just as simple as your host ports:
If you have another service (being dockerized or not) using (for example) that port that you want to use for your service (in your case, port 80) then Docker would just be unable to start your container.
So... in short... the easiest fix for that situation (and your first try whenever you face this kind of issues) is just to bind any other port from your host (say: 8080), to that 80 port that your service will be listening to internally (inside your container):
docker run -p 8080:80 myshinyapp
The same principle applies to unallocatable volumes (e.g.: trying to bind a volume as read-only that doesn't actually exist in the host)
As an aside comment/trick:
Since you're not setting a name for your container, you will need to use the container id instead when looking for its logs.
But instead of typing (or copy-pasting) the full container id (usually something like: 1283c66babea or even larger) you can just type in a few first digits instead, and it will still work as expected:
docker logs 1283c6 or docker logs 1283 or even docker logs 128
(of course... as long as you don't have any other 128***** container)
Well, I'm new at Docker and I need to implement a Shiny app in a Docker Container.
I have the image from https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/shiny/, that includes Shiny Server, but I don't know how to deploy my app in the server.
I want to deploy the app in the server, install the required packages for my app into the Docker, save the changes and export the image/container.
As I said, I'm new at Docker and I don't know how it really works.
Any idea?
I guess you should start by creating a Dockerfile in a specific folder which would look like something like this :
FROM rocker/shiny:latest
RUN echo 'install.packages(c("package1","package2", ...), \
repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org", \
dependencies=TRUE)' > /tmp/packages.R \
&& Rscript /tmp/packages.R
EXPOSE 3838
CMD ["/usr/bin/shiny-server.sh"]
Then go into this folder and build your image, giving it a name by using this command :
docker build -t your-tag .
Finally, once your image is built you can create a container, and if you don't forget to map the volume and the port, you should be able to find it at localhost:3838 with the following command launched from the folder containing the srv folder :
docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 -v $PWD/srv/shinyapps/:/srv/shiny-server/ -v $PWD/srv/shinylog/:/var/log/shiny-server/ your-tag
As said in the Docker documentation at the following address https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/shiny/, you might want to launch it in detached mode with -d option and map it with your host's port 80 for a real deployment.
The link(https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/shiny/) covers how to deploy the shiny server.
Simplest way would be:
docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 rocker/shiny
If you want to extend shiny server, you can write your own Dockerfile and start with shiny image as base image.(https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/)
Dockerfile:
FROM rocker/shiny:latest