This is the repository for the Shiny application presented in "BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots" (Spitzer at al. 2014).
You have two options for running shiny-boxplot:
- Launch directly from R and GitHub:
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Before running the app you will need to have R and RStudio installed (tested with R 3.2.1 and RStudio 0.99.465).
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Launch the R console
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Please run these lines in R:
- install.packages("shiny")
- install.packages("devtools")
- devtools::install_github("rstudio/shiny-incubator")
- install.packages("beeswarm")
- install.packages("vioplot")
- install.packages("beanplot")
- install.packages("RColorBrewer")
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Then start the app:
- shiny::runGitHub("BoxPlotR.shiny", "VizWizard")
Your web browser will open the web app.
- Install the shiny-server and implement shiny-boxplot as a web application and service:
- In Ubuntu 12.04+
- sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
- wget http://download3.rstudio.org/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-1.0.0.42-amd64.deb (may need to change ubuntu or server version number)
- sudo gdebi shiny-server-1.0.0.42-amd64.deb
- edit: /opt/shiny-server/config/default.config in a text editor
- Change these lines to suit your environment
- listen SHINY_PORT; (change SHINY_PORT to match the port you want)
- site_dir SHINY_APP_HOME; (change SHINY_APP_HOME to the location for your shiny apps)
- make sure SHINY_PORT is open on your firewall
- Go to your SHINY_APP_HOME
- cd SHINY_APP_HOME
- Get the latest shiny-boxplot code from github:
- wget https://github.com/VizWizard/BoxPlotR.shiny/archive/master.zip
- unzip master.zip
- mv BoxPlotR.shiny-master BoxPlotR.shiny
- Restart shiny-server service:
- sudo service shiny-server restart
You should now be able to access shiny-boxplot at: http://YOURSITE:**SHINY_PORT**/BoxPlotR.shiny