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.
Log in HPC OnDemand using Shiny on HPC OnDemand
Specifying the wall time and others using the web form, and click launch.
A batch job is submitted, when the job start the server, a connect button appears.
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.