Dockerfiles for portable shiny apps

These images are a stable and convenient base to package shiny apps, typically with a Dockerfile looking like:

FROM asachet/shiny-base:3.6.1

# Add packages specific to this app
RUN install2.r -s --error \
radarchart \
googlesheets

WORKDIR /usr/local/src/mycoolapp

COPY data/ data/
COPY www/ www/
COPY *.R ./
COPY *.yml ./

EXPOSE 3838

CMD ["r", "-e", "shiny::runApp('.', port=3838, host='0.0.0.0', launch.browser=F)"]

shiny-base

• Built on the most stable R image, rocker/r-ver
• Contains shiny and common packages like shinydashboard, shinyWidgets, shinythemes, DT for dataTableOutput, etc
• Contains a minimal tidyverse and ggplot-verse
• Contains convenience (and IMO best practice) tools like logging and config

shiny-mysql

• Built on shiny-base for robustness
• Adds system libraries and R packages necessary to connect to MySQL databases
• NOTE: relies on RMariaDB instead of the legacy RMySQL package!

shiny-dev

• Built on rocker-rstudio rather than rocker:r-ver, but using the same version.
• Contains shiny-base + shiny-mysql + rstudio + devtools + roxygen2
• Not meant for deployment but useful for development in the same controlled environment using rstudio in the browser.

shinyproxy-base

No longer living in this repository as R version tags did not make sense for this image.

• Containerised shinyproxy, suitable to set up a shinyproxy server. Simply add your yml config. See www.shinyproxy.io
• Dockerfile adapted from openalanalytics's shinyproxy-config-examples
• Not a suitable base for shiny apps as it does not contain shiny.

LICENSE

These Dockerfiles are under the MIT license. RStudio and Shiny are trademarks of RStudio, Inc.