blog/shiny-tip-option-where-to-run/

[giscus[bot]]

blog/shiny-tip-option-where-to-run/

Quick Shiny Tip: How to use the shiny.launch.browser option to choose where RStudio runs your app.

https://www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/shiny-tip-option-where-to-run/

[giocomai]

This is great, one of the little things that has been annoying me for ages but never quite took the time to deal with.

A minor thing: in the code chunk above you have a small typo: requiresNamespace, rather than requireNamespace.

Cheers!

[gadenbuie]

Thanks @giocomai, I just fixed the typo! Glad to hear the post was helpful!

[MarkHanly]

Solved my problem, thanks for taking the time to post!

[AlbertRapp]

Fantastic post! I used this a lot. The only thing that bothered me was that I had to recall the options() thing whenever I restart R (which I do a lot). And since the .rs.incokeShinyPaneViewer object isn't available at startup I couldn't put the options() call into .Rprofile. Originially, I solved this by defining a snippt but it turns out that .rs.invokeShinyPaneViewer is just a simple function that you can view by calling the name after startup. Thus in my .Rprofile I now use

options(
  shiny.launch.browser = function (url) {
    invisible(.Call("rs_shinyviewer", url, getwd(), "pane", NULL, 
                    PACKAGE = "(embedding)"))
  }
)

where

 function (url) {
    invisible(.Call("rs_shinyviewer", url, getwd(), "pane", NULL, 
                    PACKAGE = "(embedding)"))
  }

is exactly what you'd see if you were to put .rs.invokeShinyPaneViewer into the console after startup. Just wanted to leave this here in case anyone has been struggling with the same thing :)