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Rhino application

Source: R/app.R
app.Rd

The entrypoint for a Rhino application. Your app.R should contain nothing but a call to rhino::app().

Usage

app()

Value

An object representing the app (can be passed to shiny::runApp()).

Details

This function is a wrapper around shiny::shinyApp(). It reads rhino.yml and performs some configuration steps (logger, static files, box modules). You can run a Rhino application in typical fashion using shiny::runApp().

Rhino will load the app/main.R file as a box module (box::use(app/main)). It should export two functions which take a single id argument - the ui and server of your top-level Shiny module.

Legacy entrypoint

It is possible to specify a different way to load your application using the legacy_entrypoint option in rhino.yml:

  1. app_dir: Rhino will run the app using shiny::shinyAppDir("app").

  2. source: Rhino will source("app/main.R"). This file should define the top-level ui and server objects to be passed to shinyApp().

  3. box_top_level: Rhino will load app/main.R as a box module (as it does by default), but the exported ui and server objects will be considered as top-level.

The legacy_entrypoint setting is useful when migrating an existing Shiny application to Rhino. It is recommended to transform your application step by step:

  1. With app_dir you should be able to run your application right away (just put the files in the app directory).

  2. With source setting your application structure must be brought closer to Rhino, but you can still use library() and source() functions.

  3. With box_top_level you can be confident that the whole app is properly modularized, as box modules can only load other box modules (library() and source() won't work).

  4. The last step is to remove the legacy_entrypoint setting completely. Compared to box_top_level you'll need to make your top-level ui and server into a Shiny module (functions taking a single id argument).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  # Your `app.R` should contain nothing but this single call:
  rhino::app()
} # }