reopen 1016732 stop Hi Yadd,
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 07:45:35PM +0000, Krüger, Sebastian wrote: > I'm not a Shiny user either (so far), however the plan is for our institute > to provide Shiny applications for certain users. (I will probably write some > of these applications at some point, and I also administrate the web > server...). > > My test system: I have a current Debian sid with R, cleaned from nodejs > (apt...) and thus without shiny-server. > > Now I install the shiny-server (apt install shiny-server). > > In the packages r-cran-shiny and shiny-server are sample applications. I > copied the examples from the r-cran-shiny package (e.g. > /usr/lib/R/site-library/shiny/examples/01_hello) to /srv/shiny-server and > could (after restarting shiny-server (systemctl restart shiny-server)) access > the application via firefox: http://localhost:3838/01_hello/ . > > These applications consist of a UI part (user interface) and a result part. > In the UI part, the web user can set (e.g.) parameters for the display in the > result part. > > The problem: After installation, only the UI part is visible via the web > browser. > The result part is probably not visible because it does not receive any data > from the UI part. > > With the help of a deb package for the Shiny sever from rstudio and the > Debian package, I had at some point identified the sockjs installation as the > problem... > > To get the Shiny application running (in the current scenario), I got the > latest version of sockjs from github, "comped" it with npm () and then > replaced the javascript files under "/usr/share/nodejs/sockjs/lib/" (from the > Debian installation) with the files from the sockjs (github) package tree > ".../node_modules/sockjs/lib/". > > After restarting the Shiny server, you can now also see the result part in > the web browser and the Shiny application works. > > I am not a javascript/coffeescript friend or expert. The only thing I could > see is that both my sockjs scripts and the Debian ones are based on the same > github version (https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node/releases/tag/v0.3.24), > but the Debian version was generated with coffescript 2.7.0 and "my" version > was generated with coffescript 1.12.7. Looks like the coffeescript thingy in #1016732 is still unfixed and I've re-opened the BR. Could you please consider taking another look? -- Best, Nilesh
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