R Shiny - Access an App on my Local Machine

Question

I can not avoid windows at work. As such, I have a second machine that I use to do all of my heavy lifting and data analysis. In an ideal world, I could create a Shiny app and

Answer 1

It should be sufficient to set the host argument to 0.0.0.0 to allow it to broadcast beyond localhost, e.g.

runApp("app_name",host="0.0.0.0",port=3168)

Then you can visit http://machine2DNSname:3168 to see it.