Public hosting of Shiny apps: hands-on workshop
February 10, 2026 @ 16:00 – 17:30 CET
This workshop is part of the SBDI Days 2026. In order to take part, you need to register for the main event and select this workshop.
Title: Public hosting of Shiny apps: hands-on workshop.
Organizer: SciLifeLab Data Centre (AI Data Engineers from the SciLifeLab Serve team).
Where and when: February 10, 2026 at 16:00-17:30 at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Address: Frescativägen 40, 114 18 Stockholm.
Abstract: Researchers often create R Shiny applications as part of their projects and want to publish them as research output – as analysis tools with a graphical interface, as supplementary materials for publications, in order to make annotation easier, etc. In order to make Shiny apps available to the collaborators or general public, they need to be hosted somewhere and have a URL. We will start this workshop by giving an overview of what it means to create and publish Shiny apps as researcher in terms of institutional and funder requirements. We will then take a look at different hosting options for Shiny apps. During the hands-on part, we will focus on packaging Shiny apps for hosting as Docker images. Together with the participants, we will step-by-step package and publish an example Shiny app or the participants’ own Shiny app. If you are a researcher with an existing Shiny app you’d like to host, or if you plan to build a Shiny app in the future, this workshop is for you. If you already have a Shiny app you would like to host, bring it, and we will help you with it.
Expected outcomes: After this workshop, the participants will both have an understanding of working with Shiny apps within research projects in a Swedish university context and have practical knowledge about public hosting of Shiny apps.
For questions about the events please contact the organizing team by emailing serve@scilifelab.se
Contact information: serve@scilifelab.se
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