Pulling/Cloning already deployed application from shinyapps.io

Question

I have deployed an application from my home computer on the shinyapps.io server.

How, can I pull the same app instance to another computer. I have already added the token and have permissions to my account from the second computer. Is there cloneApp() or pullApp() function or something like this? or I would have to host it on github and then I have more freedom.

Thanks

Answer 1

One possible solution would be to host the code on github and then the only thing you have on shinyapps.io would be a pointer to pull down the relevant code from your github repo.

server.R:
eval(parse(text=RCurl::getURL("https://gist.github.com/myrepo", ssl.verifypeer=FALSE)))

ui.R:
eval(parse(text=RCurl::getURL("https://gist.github.com/myrepo", ssl.verifypeer=FALSE)))

That way, the app will serve at shinyapps.io, and you can clone that github repo from wherever you like.

Take a look at this discussion as well.