Shiny on Biowulf
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Shiny is a web application R package which empowers research and data scientists to deploy their analysis results in an interactive environment without requiring the expertise of a software developer. Shiny apps run in the context of an HPC batch job.

The Shiny visualization for users at biowulf enables a user to launch and connect to a Shiny app through HPC OnDemand. Shiny on HPC OnDemand.

Important Notes
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shinyapp directory is required
Type or select path to a shiny app directory to view. Make sure that the file is a shiny app directory (with a .R file that loads shiny).

Running shiny interactively

Log in HPC OnDemand using Shiny on HPC OnDemand

Specifying the wall time and others using the web form, and click launch.

shiny launch

A batch job is submitted, when the job start the server, a connect button appears.

shiny connect

Click the "Connect to Shiny" button will connect to a shiny app running on a compute node, then user can performs the analysis using the app.

shiny app
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