Shiny not able to load libraries about shinystudio HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the help! What you've created here is greatly appreciated.

So, the only error message I get (running in interactive mode in the docker container) is -su: line 0: cd: /srv/shiny-server/bios_5300_shiny: Permission denied in the app log, and Error getting worker: Error: The application exited during initialization in the shiny-server log.

I then ran chmod -R 775, and it worked. So it was a permissions issue, I just overlooked it.

Thanks again!

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Looks like it's a permissions issue, as I'm getting permission denied in the app log file. What permissions should the app have?

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You are correct that Shiny should see libraries installed through RStudio. Inspect the permissions on the ShinyStudio site directory, ls -la /srv/shiny-server/8080 by default. All the files should be owned by the user who invokes the Docker images, $USER. Also, anything you do in an interactive shell is done as root, and any persistent files (e.g. R libraries) will be owned by root that may or may not be accessible by standard users. So, Shiny is getting denied access to the site content or the R libraries, the only persistent components. The R libs are stored in a Docker volume, r_libraries. If you continue to have issues, can you post your Shiny log file?

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