possible to run RShiny app without opening an R environment?

Question

Currently I have a R shiny app, to run it I open up RStudio and execute

setwd(\"C:/Users/Me/Desktop/R/ShinyProject2\")
library(shiny)
......
runApp()
         


        

Answer 1

I know this is an old discussion, but it might help someone knowing this can be done now. You can create a standalone shiny app, that runs on computers WITHOUT needing to install R nor any library. There is a relatively simple way of doing it (currently I've done it only for Windows users, but something for MacOS should be around too), following these detailed steps: http://www.r-bloggers.com/deploying-desktop-apps-with-r/ .Other option could be uploading the app on the Shiny server.