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ShinyProxy 2.6.0

November 8, 2021

ShinyProxy 2.6.0 Today we release version 2.6.0 of ShinyProxy which includes over forty improvements. ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Nevertheless, ShinyProxy is also an excellent choice for deploying a handful of apps in smaller organizations. While ShinyProxy is generally used to host Shiny applications, it has always been designed with the idea to host any application that can be packaged into a Docker container.

RDepot 1.4.3

February 2, 2021

100% Open Source Enterprise Management of R Repositories RDepot is a solution for the management of R package repositories in an enterprise environment. It allows to submit packages through a user interface or API and to automatically update and publish R repositories. Multiple departments can manage their own repositories and different users can have different roles in the management of their packages. package submission through a user interface and via the REST API modern, mobile-friendly interface to browse packages and repositories authentication and fine-grained authorization with repository roles (administrator, repository manager, package manager, user) full versioning of repositories and audit trails for use in regulated contexts built-in support for load-balanced package repositories integration with continuous integration infrastructure for quality assurance on R packages What’s new in this release?

ShinyProxy 2.4.0

October 12, 2020

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Full Kubernetes Support One of the main advantages of ShinyProxy is the use of plugable container back-ends which allows people to use ShinyProxy on a plain Docker host, on a Docker Swarm cluster or on internet-scale Kubernetes cluster in the cloud. The way organizations have been deploying ShinyProxy on Kubernetes clusters has grown exponentially and providing a means to configure ShinyProxy tailored to the specific Kubernetes setup became more important.

ShinyProxy 2.2.0

March 24, 2019

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Secured Embedding of Shiny Apps Since version 2.0.1 ShinyProxy provides a REST API to manage (launch, shut down) Shiny apps and consume the content programmatically inside broader web applications or portals. This allows to cleanly separate the responsiblity for the Shiny apps (data science teams) and those broader applications (IT teams) while still achieving seamless integration between the two from the user’s perspective.

ShinyProxy Christmas Release

December 23, 2018

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Since our previous blog post five releases took place, so it is time to provide the ‘state of affairs’ before venturing into the New Year. Kerberos and Co To some Kerberos is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld. To others it is enterprise technology that protects corporate networks and offers single sign-on for network services.

ShinyProxy 2.0.1 is out!

August 7, 2018

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Embedding Shiny Apps Although Shiny apps are very popular for interactive data analysis purposes, many organizations communicated a need to more closely integrate these apps within larger applications and portals. In previous releases we broke down the walls to make this happen: hiding the navbar, single-sign on, theming the landing page and advanced networking support were only a few steps in that direction.

Using R to Generate Live World Cup Notifications

July 5, 2018

Here in Belgium, World Cup fever is at fever pitch, but with matches starting during work hours, how is a desk worker supposed to follow along? By leaving the R environment? Blasphemy. Today we show how to use R to generate live desktop notifications for The Beautiful Game. A notification system preview, free of local bias. Overview We break the process of producing a live score notification into the following steps:

ShinyProxy 1.1.1 released!

May 28, 2018

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Theming ShinyProxy 1.1.1 is in essence a maintenance release, but there is one new feature that has been on the wish list of our users for a long time: the possibility of theming the landing page of ShinyProxy which displays the overview of the Shiny apps. The standard display when using the ShinyProxy demo image from the Getting Started guide is a plain listing:

ShinyProxy 1.1.0 released!

March 25, 2018

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Scalability In our previous release (see this blog post) we announced our focus on scalability with support for Docker Swarm back-ends. With version 1.1.0 we moved to hyperscaling Shiny apps in the datacenter by adding support for Kubernetes. We have used it for customers that roll out internet-facing Shiny apps with high numbers of concurrent users and needs for automated deployment.

Using an R ‘template’ package to enhance reproducible research or the 'R package syndrome'

November 21, 2017

Motivation Have you ever had the feeling that the creation of your data analysis report(s) resulted in looking up, copy-pasting and reuse of code from previous analyses? This approach is time consuming and prone to errors. If you frequently analyze similar data(-types), e.g. from a standardized analysis workflow or different experiments on the same platform, the automation of your report creation via an R ‘template’ package might be a very useful and time-saving step.