I've been looking for a way to share an R app across a few private computers so I was looking at the following link on R-Portable:
https://www.r-bloggers.com/deploying-desktop-apps-with-r/
I was able to follow the instructions and launch the app. The interface pops up and then I see that my visualizations show that no objects are appearing. Part of my app relies on server connections and that data comes through. But other stuff is in static tables for now aka csv files. Below is an example of the shiny log error file:
Warning: Error in subset: object 'car_data' not found
Stack trace (innermost first):
71: subset
70: inherits [C:\Users\john\Desktop\copydist\TestApp\shiny\/server.R#13]
69: as.widget
68: func
67: output$stops_per_day
1: shiny::runApp
I'm not sure where these should be dumped in order for R-Portable to read them in. The program runs perfectly until it hits read.csv in which case it apparently doesn't find the object. Anyone know the proper folder within R Portable to drop the data? Based on the guy's instructions in the link im not sure what the default directory is.
Appreciate the help guys
You can also try using my package, RInno, which I developed after reading the same article.
To get started:
install.packages("RInno")
require(RInno)
RInno::install_inno()
Then you just need to call two functions to create an installation framework in app_dir, which should be the directory with your ui.R and server.R and app_dir/data/.*.csv:
create_app(app_name = "myapp", app_dir = "path/to/myapp")
compile_iss()
This will package everything up into an Inno Setup installation wizard in a directory called "RInno_installer".
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I wanted to make internally sharing/locally launching a shiny app developed with the {golem} framework a little more robust.
Hence, I used the renv package and installed the shiny app as a local package into a project folder.
I proceeded as follows (thanks #Kat for the suggestion):
initialize renv using renv::init(bare = TRUE)
renv::install("my_local_package")
renv::snapshot(type = "all")
renv::isolate()
Writing a launch file consisting of:
library(golempackage)
renv::restore()
golempackage::run_app(options = list(launch.browser = TRUE))
Share folder.
However, when launching the shiny app on a different computer (or a docker testing environment), I get the following error caused by the package bslib. Same happens when I delete my cache:
An error has occurred!
File attachments must exist: 'C:/Users/XYZ/AppData/Local/R/cache/R/renv/cache/v5/.../bslib/lib/bs3/assets/fonts'
Note: this error even occurs if I set the cache to be project-local and share it inside the project folder.
However, now the error message does not reference the global but the project-local cache. Unfortunately still as an absolute path which throws an error for other users.
This is all super weird and I have not the slightest idea why this occurs.
I would like to avoid removing bslib.
As far as I can see, the error is coming from the sass package, e.g.
https://github.com/rstudio/sass/blob/f7a954027447dd0b9826ec01c7084c89a6e64fcc/R/layers.R#L442-L443
While I don't know exactly know what's going on, you could probably use the R debugger to check why that's failing. (Does the referenced folder exist in both cases? Are you expecting renv to be using the cache in the second case?)
My shiny app runs fine in my local environment, however, when I go to publish it online I get the error "An error has occurred. The application failed to start. Contact the author for more information."
When I review the error I get:
"Line 36 Paths should be to files within the project directory"
"Line 38 Paths should be to files within the project directory"
Here is the code for both of those lines:
36.
data <- read_excel("~/data/T Version/Values for R/Pricing 081021.xlsx") %>%filter(Date_of_Indication == max(Date_of_Indication))
38.
portfolio <- read_excel("~/data/T Version/Values for R/Portfolio for R 081021.xlsx")
I'm a bit stumped as to why it isn't working, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
The online app doesn't have access to your local directory. You need to either include the data in the code itself with something like dput() or include the URL to the raw data file via GitHub or something similar.
For example, I use code like this to read a csv from my GitHub repository for my online apps:
dat<-read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UserName/RepoName/DataInput.csv")
But note that the repo has to be set to be publicly available (not private).
A potentially helpful link: https://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/written-tutorial/lesson7/
I am trying to test an shiny application with the function shinytest.
I have made an record and get a new file:
The picture show my test file and how I have specified the path to my application
When I try to run the app I get the following error:
Error in is_rmd(path) :
Unknown whether app is a regular Shiny app or .Rmd: C:/Users/LUCBA/Projects/markt_to_marketpricingtool/test/myshinyapp.R
I know the file is an R file, but I get the error anyway.
Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?
Best Lucas
This was the code that caused an error in Lucas's original question
app <- ShinyDriver$new("C:/Users/LUCBA/Projects/markt_to_marketpricingtool/test/myshinyapp.R")
The problem is that the first (path) argument to shinytest::ShinyDriver$new can only be a directory (containing either an app.R file or a server.R/ui.R pair) or R markdown .Rmd file. Sadly, a Shiny app file cannot be specified directly by name, so it can't be named myshinyapp.R.
I created an Rshiny APP on my Mac and tried to upload to shinyapps.io
However, when I press 'Publish' button at the top right corner, it shows an error.
Preparing to deploy application...DONE
Uploading bundle for application: 609021...Error in inferAppPrimaryDoc(appPrimaryDoc = appPrimaryDoc, appFiles = appFiles, :
Application mode static requires at least one document.
Calls: <Anonymous> ... withStatus -> force -> bundleApp -> inferAppPrimaryDoc
Execution halted
This problem has been solved. See the first answer.
But now, I have another problem.
I can publish it, but the app cannot show the graphs.
I check the log and it says,
Warning: Error in : Aesthetics must be either length 1 or the same as the data (1): x, y, label, vjust, fill
Also, there is another warning,
Warning in Ops.factor(Year, start) : ‘>=’ not meaningful for factors.
It is pretty strange because when I run the app on my own laptop, it works super well. Please help...
Thanks,
Weichen
You don't have to split your code to ui.R and server.R.
Here is how I solved it on Rstudio:
I created a new Shiny app.R file.
This creates a new folder inside the working directory. I copied all data files I use inside my app into that folder.
I copied and pasted my whole code into the new app.R file on Rstudio.
I clicked Publish and I chose all the data files I use together with the app.R for upload.
It worked. I am not sure why it wasn't working before even though I was still choosing the right files together; I guess because they weren't in the right folder for the Shiny app.
edit: don't forget to Save the app.R file before publishing
Solved.
At first, I simply execute the shiny.R (the whole code) Wrong!
Try this. Create two r files under the same directory.
ui.R
server.R
and then executive shiny.R
You would see an amazing thing happen.
Solved the second problem.
Change the type of 'Year' to numeric by as.numeric
However, I still cannot understand because I can run app on my own laptop.
BTW, the logs in shinyapps.io help me target the problem.
I'm trying to publish an R Shiny app. It works when run locally, but once published to shinyapps.io produces the following error.
Warning in gzfile(file, "wb") :
cannot open compressed file '/key.rda', probable reason 'Permission denied'
Error in value[[3L]](cond) : cannot open the connection
Calls: local ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
You can also see the actual page with the error here: https://povertylab.shinyapps.io/ACS-Map-Dashboard/
Though I have tried to reproduce this error it doesn't appear when I publish other apps, and my searches haven't turned up anything. Other things I've tried: publishing from other computers, publishing only global.R, server.R, and ui.R files, and copying files to a new project and publishing from there.
You can find all code for the app here: https://github.com/Poverty-Lab/ACS-Map-Dashboard
I would appreciate any input, even if it's just guidance on what gzfile is and what the error message could mean. Thank you!
Where is the key.rda file supposed to be? I've looked through your repo and I don't see it, which is probably causing the "cannot open the connection" error.
As a side note, you should probably ignore the .Renviron file; right now anyone can use see and use your key. Make sure you remove it from the history as well.
Thanks all. Turns out this was a problem with the way we were handing the api key for the acs package. We were using api.key.install to install the api key inside the app, and one of api.key.install's default arguments is file = "key.rda", and that file apparently could not be found. I'm still not sure why this problem only came up when we published the app, but we got around it by supplying the actual api key to the acs.fetch function in server.R.