[R] Running open source shiny server on Debian

[Bert Gunter]

It could well be just my ignorance, but your post seems to have little to
directly do with R. Have you tried posting it on the Posit community forum:
https://forum.posit.co/  ?

Cheers,
Bert

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 9:11 AM Chris Evans via R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
wrote:

> Apologies that this is at the edge/corner of R-help but I think at least
> some of the key issues are R ones.
>
> I am a retired clinician continuing to do pro bono research but have
> zero research income.  However, I have run a little public service shiny
> server (https://shiny.psyctc.org) since early 2024 and want to continue
> with it and expand it.   (See
> https://www.psyctc.org/Analysing_shiny_usage.html for too much
> information about its use if that interests you!)
>
> Recently my excellent ISP wanted to upgrade their various servers,
> including that one.  They are pretty much FLOSS only and happy that I
> use R but they are not R or shiny experts though, in my view, superb for
> general ISP Email and web server support on Debian.
>
> They said that they were finding it hard to be sure of running the open
> source shiny server on Debian and I can find no recent information on
> this and see that Posit say that their OS shiny server is only
> installable on:
>     Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and higher
>     Ubuntu 22.04 and higher (LTS releases only)
>     SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7
> (from https://docs.posit.co/shiny-server/)
>
> They did do the upgrade of the server to bookworm and the shiny server
> is now on R 4.2.2.  The apps are all runnning OK (and they are mostly
> very simple) but this is clearly not good to be using a version of R
> that is four years old.
>
> So could anyone point me to any information about installing the OS
> shiny server on Debian bookworm or trixie and using a recent R.
>
> I am asking here before stepping into the time consuming process of
> installing a VM manager on my own Ubuntu machine, and then installing
> bookworm or trixie as VMs and trying to explore this myself.  I know
> that would be taking me to the limits of my competences (I am a
> psychotherapist and fairly competent data analyst not a server manager
> or programmer!) and using up hours of work time!!
>
> TIA and thanks for umpteen (>=17) years of learning from r-help,
>
> Chris
> ---
> Chris Evans
> Visiting Professor, UDLA, Quito, Ecuador
> Work web site: https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/
> CORE site: http://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk/
> Personal site: https://www.psyctc.org/pelerinage2016/
>
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