An overview of methods to create R Shiny Desktop Apps

Wenxuan Zhang
7 min readMay 6, 2022

In this article, I am going to discuss two ways of deploying the R Shiny App as a desktop app

There are two ways of deploying the R Shiny Apps:

  1. Web Application
  2. Desktop Application

Though the first method is convenient, and easy to share, it requires multiple approvals from IT/Finance, which is time/energy-consuming. You would not be surprised that it takes weeks, if not months, to get every stakeholder aligned. What if you just developed an R Shiny Tool and want…

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