R built in Web server

Question

Since R 2.13, R comes with a built-in web server. Is there a simple way to create a local web server using R with a custom port number?

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Answer 1

Take a look at Rook - it's on GitHub. About setting a port number, see ?tools::help.ports it accepts a vector of numbers (integers) and it will choose the first available one. There's also sinartra (CRAN, GitHub), but I'd rather go with Rook.