You can install shiny directly from github using the devtools package. In order to install shiny you'll also need to be configured to build R packages from source. To install devtools and verify that you can build packages from source:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
has_devel()

If the has_devel function produces an error then you'll need to install some additional components required to build packages from source:

• Windows – Install the appropriate Rtools binaries for your version of R.
• MacOS X – Install the Command Line Tools for Xcode.
• Debian/Ubuntu – sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Next, you need to install a modified version of the websockets package from github:

install_github("R-websockets", "jcheng5")

Finally, you can install the shiny package from github:

install_github("shiny", "rstudio")

To verify that Shiny is installed correctly you can run an example application:

library(shiny)
runExample("01_hello")

If everything is installed and working correctly a browser will open and navigate to the running application.

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