Run Shiny App from Shortcut Windows 10

Question

I\'m trying to create a shortcut on the desktop to run a Shiny app. I am stuck on creating a batch file to execute this and after scouring the web, I still haven\'t been able to

Answer 1

You have to set the R working directory to the folder containing your shiny files; or explicitly specify the path in your call to runApp().

Something like this:

test.bat

"path/to/Rscript.exe" "path/to/run.R"

run.R

library(shiny)
setwd("c:/users/username/Desktop/test")
runApp()