Shiny
R package for building interactive web applications, with reactive outputs and prebuilt input widgets.
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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links
shiny.posit.co/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny - 2026-10-26: Maintainer, Runtime, Minimum runtime
raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/DESCRIPTION - 2026-10-26: Categories
cran.r-project.org/package=shiny - 2026-10-26: Install with, License
raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/shiny/main/README.md - 2026-10-26: Runs as
docs.posit.co/shiny-server/ - 2026-10-26: First release
cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/shiny/ - 2026-10-26: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny/releases - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/rstudio/shiny/contributors?per_page=1