Deploy your app

SISBID 2026
https://github.com/dicook/SISBID

RStudio Connect and ShinyApps

  • Sign up for an account on https://www.shinyapps.io/

  • Authenticate your account

  • Install the library rsconnect (this is the part that may require admin access to your machine)

  • Follow the instructions on ShinyApps.io to authenticate and upload your first app!

Initiate

✅ Using the RStudio File menu,

  • choose New file,
  • choose “Shiny web app”
  • Give it a name, and choose Single file

This will create a folder in your workspace with the same name as you gave your app. It will also open the app.R file in your text editor pane.

🛑 Click the Run App button on the RStudio window.

✅ Click Publish to upload your app to the shinyapps.io server.

㊗️ You’ve just published your first app

Make it yours

Change the plot to use ggplot, this involves changing the server function to be this:

server <- function(input, output) {
    output$distPlot <- renderPlot({
        ggplot(faithful, aes(x=waiting)) + geom_histogram(bins = input$bins)
    })
}

You will also need to add library(ggplot2) at the top of the file, just after library(shiny).

🛑 Click the Run App button on the RStudio window. (Fix any errors)

✅ Click Publish to re-upload your app to the shinyapps.io server.

㊗️ You’ve just published your first modified app

Make the plot interactive

Change from a static ggplot plot, to an interactive plotly plot, by

Change the server function to look like this. Note renderPlotly

server <- function(input, output) {

    output$distPlot <- renderPlotly({
        p <- ggplot(faithful, aes(x=waiting)) +
            geom_histogram(bins = input$bins)
        print(ggplotly(p))
    })
}

Change the ui function to render plotly output

mainPanel(
  plotlyOutput("distPlot")
)

Add library(plotly) to the top of the file.

🛑 Click the Run App button on the RStudio window. (Fix any errors)

Change the UI

Convert the slide into a numeric input, by changing the ui function to be:

sidebarLayout(
  sidebarPanel(
    numericInput("bins", "nbins", 30)
  ),

(The numericInput replaces the sliderInput code)

🛑 Click the Run App button on the RStudio window. (Fix any errors)

✅ Click Publish to re-upload your app to the shinyapps.io server.

㊗️ You’ve just published your second modified app

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