Slides: Publishing Shiny apps as a researcher. Webinar, 2025.01.16
This entry contains slides presented at the webinar "Publishing Shiny apps as a researcher" that was held on 2025.01.16. The webinar was organized by SciLifeLab Data Centre, and it was open to all life science researchers in Sweden.
Abstract:
Shiny is a popular framework for building interactive web apps with visualizations, tables, analysis tools, etc. using R. Researchers often create Shiny applications as part of their projects and want to publish them as supplementary materials for publications, presentations, and other purposes. However, finding a venue to publish (in other words, to host) a Shiny app is challenging because existing commercial platforms are not optimized for use by researchers and impose limitations on the speed of the applications and volume of visitors in their free tier.
In this webinar, we will demonstrate Shiny app publication through SciLifeLab Serve — a newly developed platform that is free to use for all life science researchers in Sweden and offers dedicated resources for long-term hosting. We will discuss how to prepare a Shiny app for sharing and provide a step-by-step demonstration of how to start hosting it and obtain a public URL to share with the world. After this webinar you should be able to do this yourself for your own Shiny apps. Additionally, we will discuss requirements from funders and research institutions when publishing Shiny applications as research output.
History
Publisher
Uppsala UniversityContact email
arnold.kochari@scilifelab.uu.seSciLifeLab acknowledgement
- SciLifeLab Data Centre