Advice on setup to run Shiny Server (requires Linux) for R web apps when
we have a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server?
I am a rookie when it comes to servers, but I have nonetheless been the
one asked to get Shiny up and running for web applications in the
open-source statistics and computing environment R at my office. Shiny
requires a Linux server ("You can also deploy Shiny applications over the
web...You'll need a Linux server and our Shiny Server software..."), but
we have a 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server. From the reading I've
done so far, it seems like we could use free options such as VMWare Server
or Microsoft Virtual Server to run Linux and then run Shiny on Linux.
Would that approach make sense? If so, I am also wondering if we could use
Ubuntu Server as our Linux Server OS in this case and, if the answer is
yes, whether you have found 12.04.3 or 13.04 to be the more stable Ubuntu
version of the two. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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