Chapter 5 Deploying your application

5.1 Shinyapps.io

Sign up to https://www.shinyapps.io/. Your university may already have a subscription, otherwise you can use a free plan to host your app.

5.2 Bioconductor

Before deploying, you should specific the bioconductor repository (depending on updates, a very new version may be incompatible with Shiny briefly). You can also check which repositories have been set using getOption("repos").

setRepositories(addURLs = c(BioC = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.16/bioc")) #specify version here

And, DEPLOY! (this may take awhile). If you are using RStudio, you can also deploy using the blue icon in the top-right corner.

rsconnect::deployApp()

Still not working? Check our troubleshooting guide (6) for more help. It may be as simple as turning off your firewall.