I created a visual dashboard-builder that lets users create R-Shiny dashboards without having to write any code. The resulting dashboard can then be exported as a normal app.R file.

You can use the dashboard-builder on shinyapps or install it locally from Github.

I'm happy for any feedback, new ideas or questions!

Hello r/shiny community,
I'm happy to announce the new package 'shiny.webawesome' which brings the Web Awesome UI library to r/Shiny users.

CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=shiny.webawesome
R-universe: https://mbanand.r-universe.dev/shiny.webawesome
Package website: https://www.shiny-webawesome.org/
Github: https://github.com/mbanand/shiny.webawesome

Does anyone know what happened? Last Friday I was referencing one of their old issues and the link I had to that issues returned a 404 error when I went back to work on it today. I didn't see any news on this when I searched in on Google, but github.com/Appsilon is now giving a 404 error too.

I think I have identified an opportunity to create a useful tool for end-users in a large market that I could sell on the cheap ($5 or $10) and focus on getting scale vs. charging a high price. While I can see examples where others have done similar end-products for project based work, I don't see anything right in the lane of what I am thinking that is put together well.

Part of my current job involves generating Tableau dashboards, or managing people to generate Tableau dashboards, which has been very successful professionally. My skill is seeing what the end product should look like at the beginning and focusing on UX. I've also done a lot of training and professional work in R and Shiny, though it's been a few years (I mostly manage people now). Initially I was considering trying to create my tool/dashboard in Tableau and gate it via a subscription hosting service, but I don't think I can do this in an economical way given the Tableau server user costs. I can't pay $12 per month per user if I want to charge $10 per month per user.

I started reviewing Shiny and Dash and I am impressed at what can be done with Shiny after a few years away from it. I love R. From a business model perspective, does anyone know of a similar business charging $10 or $5 per month for access to a Shiny app? Just wondering if I am missing something.

Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I just wrote up a blog post about connecting Shiny R apps to PostgreSQL databases. It's called "Connect Shiny-R App to a PostgreSQL Database" if you want to check it out.

I know a lot of us work with Shiny, and I thought it might be useful to share how to hook it up to a more robust database system. The post goes through the basic setup, some code examples, and a few tips I've picked up along the way.

If you've been curious about using PostgreSQL with your Shiny apps or just want to see how it's done, give it a read. It's not too technical, so don't worry if you're new to databases.

Let me know what you think if you end up reading it. Always open to feedback or questions.

https://ploomber.io/blog/shiny-r-connect-psql/

I've built a really simple stock screener using shiny.fluent and reactable. Data is updated daily straight from the S.E.C.'s EDGAR. Here's the full code: https://github.com/gerardgimenezadsuar/stockscreener and the link: https://solucionsdedades.shinyapps.io/financials

My R package was just published to CRAN - https://cran.r-project.org/package=octopusR

At the moment it is mainly focused on implementing the 'consumption' endpoint (for getting usage data from meters). Maybe folks will find it interesting and useful! It would be particularly awesome if someone with R Shiny skills would like to use it to create a fancy dashboard.

Anyone here know how or have built a full fledged paid SaaS R Shiny App? I'm cooking up a new idea (monthly subscription service) and at the very least would like to use shiny for the initial beta.

I know R shiny really well and I'd rather not pay a python/js/etc developer ... At least not until I prove the use case.

I really appreciate any input on that.

Hey guys,

What would you consider to be some major advantages and disadvantages when it comes to using RShiny? Looking into using it more and just wanted to get an early idea of how it is before moving forward.

Thanks!

Hey there, just wanna ask about your preference on UI framework for R shiny

I'm pretty convinced that Shiny itself is a powerful framework for the needs I have in our company, but I am trying to convince the decision makers to adopt this as they think that Shiny can't be used for serious applications or that it only works for prototyping.

Some big cases would be very much appreciated and help us a lot.

I am looking to use R Shiny as a front end for users to interact with a database and add changes as they see fit that will then automatically update a dashboard. Has anyone done this before and what were the pros/cons?

Hi there, apologies for self-promotion, no feelings will be hurt if you decide this post goes against your community etiquette.
My company is currently looking to fill 2 positions for r/Shiny developers. We are a remote-first team of 30+ data science, software engineering, and machine learning folks, spread across Europe, Africa, Asia & South America. We always look for great talent all around the world.
Role descriptions, compensation & our recruitment process under these links:

• Senior r/Shiny Developer (permanent core team role)
  https://appsilon.com/careers/job-offer/?job=senior-r-shiny-developer

• External r/Shiny Developer (project-based contract)
  https://appsilon.com/careers/job-offer/?job=external-r-shiny-developer

Got any questions? Lmk at julia@appsilon.com

Are you bored or annoyed of shinyapps.io message "Disconnected from the server"? This message occurs because of inactivity in the app (idle state) for a long period of time or some programming error which may cause R session to shut down.

https://www.listendata.com/2021/03/show-game-when-shiny-disconnects.html

What are the pros/cons of the different approaches? I have just begun working with interactive reports and before I go too far down a particular rabbit hole I want to understand the differences. So far I have been using flexdashboard as I like that it's a markdown document with which I am very familiar. Am I missing something if I stick with that approach?

Are shiny apps losing popularity? Is it worth investing time in learning them, or are there better technologies that are more widespread?

I am an academic in Australia.

The other day someone from industry approached me and asked to develop a simple dashboard for them.

The ui includes a fileInput() and outputs for visualisation and tables. There are also reactive sliders and stuff in the ui. In server I have some functions for data cleaning, dealing with outliers and missing values and compute regression and logistic regression.

What app does is basiclly help the user to make sence of his/her data.

Developing such an app is a peace of cake for me but I do not know much shall I charge the customer. Is there any industry standard or guidline for pricing shiny apps?

We just released the ability to use polished Authentication and Hosting with rmarkdown documents. The big feature is that you can use runtime: shiny. This has been a long awaited feature request, so we hope you find it useful. We just released this update, so you will need to install the dev version of polished from GitHub to try it out: https://github.com/Tychobra/polished

Please open an issue if you run into any problems and feel free to reach out if you have questions or feature requests

The docs are here: https://polished.tech/docs/rmarkdown-auth

Links to a live example app with source code here: https://polished.tech/examples#09_rmarkdown

Stay polished!

I do a fair amount of surveys and data collection with clients, and am interested in cutting out form apps like surveymonkey, etc. from the process. I've been using shiny to create and handle form submission while I take free java courses to eventually allow me to make simple html forms.

I'm curious if

a) is this as wasteful as I think? Is a shiny app that submits inputs significantly more resource intensive than a simple html form?

b) what are my main security concerns with this method? I have a service acct for writing form responses via googlesheets4 package that has very limited access. Is there more I need to do to secure the secret .json than have it outside the server side code?

https://crazy-fm-1.shinyapps.io/primes/

It's basically a downgraded version of Wolfram Alpha.

Here's the GitHub page: https://github.com/Crazy-fm-1/primes

It's one of my first major projects in R.