R Observatory: Metrics for shinylight version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinylight

1.3Package record

Web Interface to 'R' Functions

1packages depend

7.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim BandCRAN page ↗

Web front end for your 'R' functions producing plots or tables. If you have a function or set of related functions, you can make them available over the internet through a web browser. This is the same motivation as the 'shiny' package, but note that the development of 'shinylight' is not in any way linked to that of 'shiny' (beyond the use of the 'httpuv' package). You might prefer 'shinylight' to 'shiny' if you want a lighter weight deployment with easier horizontal scaling, or if you want to develop your front end yourself in JavaScript and HTML just using a lightweight remote procedure call interface to your R code on the server.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("shinylight", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-shinylight

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-shinylight

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-shinylight

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-25
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-18
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

READMEYes · 144 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 61includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,185 · ~21/day · ~633/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59630 days

1.4K90 days

7.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on83 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinylight adds 12 packages (8 with compiled code, 9.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, httpuv 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

grDeviceshttpuv jsonlite later

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

websocket

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

IsoplotRgui

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Tim Band

Author, Maintainer since 0.7 (2022)

Pieter Vermeesch

Author

Releases (7)

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1.3Latest
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2026-10-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2
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2024-04-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.2
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2022-11-30 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2022-11-21 · diff ↗
1.1
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2022-11-18 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2022-10-18 · diff ↗
0.7
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2022-09-01
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-01
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 70 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinylight")

Format

Band, T., & Vermeesch, P. (2026). shinylight: Web Interface to 'R' Functions (Version 1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinylight

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shinylight version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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