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Connect RStudio to shinyapps.io

Connect RStudio to shinyapps.io

From the course: Creating Interactive Presentations with Shiny and R

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Connect RStudio to shinyapps.io

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- [Voiceover] Connecting your RStudio installation to your shinyapps.io is quite simple but requires us to register for shinyapps.io account first. So, lets go over to the service, and register for a free account. So we'll go to shinyapps.io, and we'll click the sign up button. Well I'm going to use my alias. I'll choose a super secret password, and then I'll click Sign Up. And that's me registered for a shinyapps.io account. What you need to choose when you first set up your account though, is your slug. So the URL that people are going to be using to navigate to your shiny apps hosted at shinyapps.io. I'm gonna call this my alias for this course. So I'm going to call this zacharyheilyn.shinyapps.io. So this is where my shiny apps will live. I'll press save. And now I've set up my account. I'm gonna tell Chrome I don't want to save my password yet. Now I've registered for my account, I need to connect it to RStudio. There's some tutorials here on how to use the dev tools package. But…

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