R Observatory: Metrics for shinylight version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinylight

1.2

Web Interface to 'R' Functions

1packages depend

7.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim BandFirst published 2022-09-016 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 45 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,267 · ~22/day · ~662/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25430 days

1.5K90 days

7.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u16 autocran

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (4)

grDeviceshttpuv jsonlite later

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

websocket

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

IsoplotRgui

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Tim Band

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Tim Band

Author, Maintainer

Pieter Vermeesch

Author

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
1.2Latest
2024-04-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.2
2022-11-30 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2022-11-21 · diff ↗
1.1
2022-11-18 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-10-18 · diff ↗
0.7
2022-09-01
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-01
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 70 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinylight")

Format

Band, T., & Vermeesch, P. (2024). shinylight: Web Interface to 'R' Functions (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinylight

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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