IKMZ Shiny Server

The IKMZ Shiny Server is a web server that runs R programs within some HTML code to provide dynamic web pages displaying statistical analysis. More information is available at RStudio.

Please note that server access/usage is restricted to members of the Department of Communication and Media Research and only granted upon request (IKMZ IT Support).

Once you are given access, you're ready to start deploying your Shiny applications. To this, you need to connect to sftp.ikmz.uzh.ch (port 22) with your Shiny SFTP account (shiny-<UZH shortname> / public key authentication) either via

• the command line (e.g., PowerShell, CMD, Terminal) or
• an (S)FTP client (e.g., FileZilla, Cyberduck).

When connected to sftp.ikmz.uzh.ch, you should be able to see a folder named ShinyApps. Placed and organized in subfolders of the ShinyApps folder, your Shiny apps are listed at https://shiny.ikmz.uzh.ch/users/<UZH shortname>/.

• Please use packrat to isolate each app to have its own private library.
• Please modify your code not to have spaces in any names and ideally make all the filenames lowercase.
• If errors occur or you are missing certain R packages at the IKMZ Shiny Server, feel free to contact IKMZ IT Support.

You can look at shiny.rstudio.com to take a deeper dive into Shiny or take a look at some of the Shiny Server Quick Start Guides to learn about some of the different things Shiny Server can do.