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:

1. Launch directly from R and GitHub:

• Before running the app you will need to have R and RStudio installed (tested with R 3.2.1 and RStudio 0.99.465).

• Launch the R console

• 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")

• Then start the app:

  • shiny::runGitHub("BoxPlotR.shiny", "VizWizard")

Your web browser will open the web app.

2. 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