# Shiny

R package for building interactive web applications, with reactive outputs and prebuilt input widgets.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/shiny/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://shiny.posit.co/
- repository: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny
- discord: https://discord.com/invite/yMGCamUMnS
- forum: https://forum.posit.co

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Posit Software, PBC
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2012
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: r
- language: r
- runtime: r
- runtimeMin: r 3.1
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: install.packages from CRAN

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-06-22

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5707
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 92
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://shiny.posit.co/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://cran.r-project.org/package=shiny (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-26)
- runtimeMin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/DESCRIPTION (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://docs.posit.co/shiny-server/ (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/README.md (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/shiny/ (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny/releases (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Shiny is an R package for building interactive web applications in R. It is installed from CRAN with `install.packages("shiny")`, and the source is developed in the rstudio/shiny repository on GitHub.

The Shiny Server admin guide says the open source Shiny Server manages R processes that run Shiny applications, for deployment on-premises. Posit also runs hosted services for Shiny apps, Shinyapps.io and Posit Connect Cloud, and sells Posit Connect, a commercial platform for deploying on-premises or in a VPC.

## Worth knowing

The hosted services and Posit Connect are Posit's own products beside the open-source package, and their plans and terms are not part of the package's license.

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