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Managing Shiny apps with rsconnect

Managing Shiny apps with rsconnect

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Managing Shiny apps with rsconnect

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Shiny is the package that we use to build Shiny apps. But it's not the package that we used to manage our Shiny apps. On shinyapps.io, or Shiny Server. We need to use the rsconnect package for that. Let's see how we use the package in our exercise files. We're going to go to folder 10 03. And we'll open up our R Studio project. Let's open up a new script file by going to File, New File.R script. Let's load at the top of our of a script file for tidyvest. So we can move some data wrangling. Let's load the rsconnect package. We can see all of the accounts that R Studio is currently connected to with the accounts function. So at this time, we can see that my R Studio instance is only connected to one Shiny server. And that's hosted on shinyapps.io. For apps which are hosted on shinyapps.io, the rsconnect package has additional functionality. For instance, we can show our logs for shiny app deployed to shinyapps.io. So let's do that, let's run show logs, with the account, little shiny…

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