Opening Shiny App directly in the default browser

Question

Normally the shiny app opens through the inbuilt browser within R-Studio. Is it possible to open the app directly in the web browser, say Google Chrome, without going through the R-Studio.

You mean something like this: runApp(list(ui = ui, server = server),host="192.168.xxx.xx",port=80, launch.browser = T). as long as the app running you can access it by typing into your browser the IP address of the app (192.168.xxx.xx:80) — Pork Chop
@PorkChop Thankyou...what I meant was, when you click on the run app button in R-Studio, can the app be made to open in the default web browser. — Apricot

Pork Chop Pork Chop · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-10T10:18:46

To run it using different approach to @Batanichek you can locate the executables of each of your browsers and then specify it in options which to point to, as so:

Edit: You can find the options and its arguments in the R environment (I used RStudio) e.g. options(browser = )

Step 1: Locate where your .exe files are installed for all you browsers, then add the following:

For Chrome

options(browser = "C:/Program Files/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe")

For Firefox

options(browser = "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe")

For IE

options(browser = "C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe")

Step 2: Run the app as always

runApp(list(ui = ui, server = server),host="192.168.xx.xx",port=5013, launch.browser = TRUE)

Opening Shiny App directly in the default browser

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