Shiny Server (https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/shiny-server/ ) is a server to put Shiny ( http://shiny.rstudio.com/ ) applications or interactive documents available over the web. The official documentation seems quite confusing to me, so I want to share this quick tutorial for people approaching it for the first time. The procedure explained in this post has been tested and replicated on several Linux Red Hat Servers 6.6+ 64-bit, but it should work on any Linux distribution that allows RPM management. The overall procedure could be of course automated, but for better understanding of this tutorial I am going to describe any manual step involved. Installation Connect to your Linux server as root and download the latest RPM for your specific architecture: wget https://download3.rstudio.org/centos5.9/x86_64/shiny-server-1.4.0.721-rh5-x86_64.rpm and then install it using yum: yum install --nogpgcheck shiny-server-1.4.0.721-rh5-x86_64.rpm At the end of the installation p
