Electron App Package Download R Binary

After granting permission, you may need to quit the app and then launch it again.

Here are a couple of alternatives: electricShine and photon.

I first heard about the possibility of using Electron to deploy Shiny apps as standalone desktop applications in this talk by Katie Sasso, but it wasnt until I discovered the R Shiny Electron (RSE) template that I decided to take the plunge.

There were considerable gaps in my understanding that left me flailing while trying to get things to work (especially on Windows).

On Windows, Node installs a Node.js command prompt that I used for any npm and electron-forge commands (rather than the default Windows command prompt).

The Node installer provides Windows users with the option to automatically install the necessary tools, including Chocolatey.

I checked the box to automatically install these tools, but Im not sure if this step is necessary to build the Electron app.

I forked the repository, searched for each dependency package in package.json via the npm website, and updated version numbers to the latest version found in the npm package search.

I also removed electron-forge from the devDependencies because it is installed globally.

If you are having trouble with the original repository, you should try the forked version of the RSE template repository.

As a first step, I recommend following the steps below to confirm that you can build the executable with the simple app before trying your own app.

At the end of this post, I will write more about extra steps required to build the executable for the DSM2 Viz Tool.

In Outr-shiny-electron-darwin-x64, you will have an executable ( r-shiny-electron.app ) that you can run to test that the app is working correctly.

In Outmake, you will have a zip file that contains the executable but is better for distributing because of the smaller file size.

I tried going down this road, but bailed after the process had run for 2 hours without finishing because I had access to a Windows machine for building the app.

The wget function is used in.get-r-win.sh.

If you have wget from another installation process, then you might be able to skip this step.

Use Notepad to open.get-r-win.sh and confirm that the EOL characters are in Unix format.

Electron App Package Download R Binary

Download R binary for Windows by running.get-r-win.sh in Cygwin.

In Outmakesquirrel.windowsx64, you will have an installer executable called r-shiny-electron-1.0.0 Setup.exe.

I also opened package.json in a text editor and changed a few fields (e.g., name, productName, version, description, author).

However, before running npm start I needed to add the binary files for the rhdf5 and Rhdf5lib packages because Rscript add-cran-binary-pkgs.R doesnt find Bioconductor packages.

You can find where R packages are installed on your machine by running.libPaths() from the R console.

I manually copied and pasted the rhdf5 and Rhdf5lib folders from the location indicated by the output of.libPaths() to DSM2-Viz-Toolr-maclibrary and DSM2-Viz-Toolr-winlibrary on macOS and Windows, respectively.

Solve the permission error by running sudo chown -R USER usrlocallibnodemodules from the Terminal.

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