Enable easy hosting of shiny apps on shinyapps.io service (http://www.shinyapps.io)
When you create a shiny app using R Studio and R Shiny on a desktop PC/MAC environment - from within R Studio you can publish your app to the web using R Studio's shinyapps.io hosting service so anyone can access your app using only a browser.
It would be useful for this functionality [that is, ability to post shiny apps to shinyapps.io from with R Studio the same way it is done from a desktop environment - which is essentially by clicking a publish application button in R Studio] within R Studio to be seamlessly available in IBM Data Science Workbench for those that possess shinyapps.io hosting accounts.


We will look at this as two feature requests:
1. post your Shiny app on shinyapps.io (requires account)
2. turn analytics you built in to deployable apps
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Anonymous commented
In the same vein, it would also be neat to have an area within Data Science Workbench for people to share their shiny apps!
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Cool! This guide might help: http://www.r-bloggers.com/add-authentication-to-shiny-server-with-nginx/
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Anonymous commented
A way to host directly on Data Scientist Workbench could be a nice feature for users since everything would stay within one platform/the Data Scientist Workbench - BUT the Data Scientist Workbench hosting offering would need to equal or surpass shinyapps.io in terms of ease of use, functionality, and features in order for it to be a suitable substitute to use in place of shinyappps.io.
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Great idea! Does it need to be linked specifically to shinyapps.io? What if you could hosted it directly on Data Scientist Workbench and share your apps with everyone?