R Observatory: Metrics for shinylive version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinylive

0.5.0Package record

Run 'shiny' Applications in the Browser

0packages dependsuggested by 2

22.8Kdownloads / year

17.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Barret SchloerkeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Exporting 'shiny' applications with 'shinylive' allows you to run them entirely in a web browser, without the need for a separate R server. The traditional way of deploying 'shiny' applications involves in a separate server and client: the server runs R and 'shiny', and clients connect via the web browser. When an application is deployed with 'shinylive', R and 'shiny' run in the web browser (via 'webR'): the browser is effectively both the client and server for the application. This allows for your 'shiny' application exported by 'shinylive' to be hosted by a static web server.

Changes in 0.5.0

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Updated the default shinylive assets to v0.10.12, which upgrades the bundled webR to v0.6.0 (#193, #195).
WebAssembly package binaries cached during export() are now replaced once the WebAssembly repository catches up to the locally installed version. Previously, a binary downloaded while the repository lagged behind was never refreshed (#194).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("posit-dev/r-shinylive")

Development version from posit-dev/r-shinylive. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-shinylive

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-shinylive

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-21
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-17
OK13 OK2026-08-04

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

WebsiteYes · pkgdown

How these are measured

Downloads

22.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,054 · ~63/day · ~1.9K/mo

shinylive Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

4.3K90 days

22.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on907 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

posit-dev/r-shinylive ↗Organization: posit-dev

235Stars

22Forks

48Open issues

3Open PRs

7Releases

120Commits

10Commit identities

120 commits · Last activity 2026-09-13 · -0.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/posit-dev/r-shinylive on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-08

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-25
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 5 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.65 commits · Mar to May 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinylive adds 38 packages (23 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: renv 1.5 MB, fs 1.4 MB, pkgdepends 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (16)

archive brio cli fs gh glue httr2 jsonlite lifecycle pkgdepends rappdirs renv rlangtoolswhisker withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

httpuv pkgcache spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

cofad shinyelectron

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Barret Schloerke

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author · added in 0.2.0

Winston Chang

Author

George Stagg

Author

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (7)

0.5.0Latest
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2026-06-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-07
0.4.1
record
2026-04-07 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-04-06
policy violation Use of ~/.cache/shinylive, leaving 700+MB behind
0.4.0
record
2026-03-31 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.0
record
2024-11-13 · diff ↗
0.2.0
record
2024-07-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
record
2023-12-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2023-10-11
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-11
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 36 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("shinylive")

Format

Schloerke, B., Posit Software, PBC, Aden-Buie, G., Chang, W., & Stagg, G. (2026). shinylive: Run 'shiny' Applications in the Browser (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinylive

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shinylive version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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