I am running RStudio on a server and I created a RMarkdown (.Rmd) file. It works fine if I create it as a static HTML but it does not work if I want it to be interactive (by adding runtime:shiny).
The issue is that when I add runtime:shiny and press the Run Document button the application will try to open at 127.0.0.1:xxxx (here xxxx is a random port). In order to make it work I would have to be able to change the host parameter to '0.0.0.0'. This is an option in the runApp function from the shiny package but I don't know how to add this option in RMarkdown.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thank you.
The ::run
command from rmarkdown
invokes shiny::runApp
internally. You can set the option shiny.host
before running the document:
options(shiny.host="0.0.0.0")
rmarkdown::run("myfile.Rmd")
You an also pass arbitrary paramters to runApp
, so this should work too:
rmarkdown::run("myfile.Rmd", shiny_args=list(host="0.0.0.0"))
Neither of these will work with the Run Document button; that button starts a new R session in which to render the document. To change the shiny.host
option in that session, you'll need to add the option to your .Rprofile
.
Set the default values you want to initialize in (~/.Rprofile) under user directory
Sys.setenv(TZ = "UTC") # for Timezone
options(shiny.port = 9999)