Ubuntu step by step install instructions

Complete list of instructions for installing Shiny Server and its prerequisites on Ubuntu.

THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE OUT OF DATE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED.

Get the latest instructions and code from http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/server/install-opensource

We'll keep them here for posterity's sake, but you should not be using Shiny Server 0.3.x anymore.

Ubuntu 13.04 (or 12.10, 12.04)

# Install Node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

# Install R
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs)/"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

# Install Shiny in system-wide library
sudo su - -c "R -e \\"install.packages('shiny', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\\""

sudo npm install -g shiny-server

# Install Upstart script
sudo wget\
  https://raw.github.com/rstudio/shiny-server/master/config/upstart/shiny-server.conf\
  -O /etc/init/shiny-server.conf

# Create a system account to run Shiny apps
sudo useradd -r shiny
# Create a root directory for your website
sudo mkdir -p /var/shiny-server/www
# Create a directory for application logs
sudo mkdir -p /var/shiny-server/log

# Start Shiny
sudo start shiny-server

# Optional: Install examples to test
sudo cp -R /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/shiny/examples /var/shiny-server/www/

Now open a browser to http://<hostname>:3838/examples/ and see if they work.