Choose YakData ConnectR for your next R shiny web app project. Save time, money and IT headaches with automated deployment in minutes to one of 14 locations worldwide.
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Create R shiny apps on your desktop
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Create R shiny web apps using your favorite desktop editor for R and shiny, the most popular open-source package for building web apps in R.
Publish your R shiny app to ConnectR
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Upload your R shiny app and any file-based data sources to ConnectR.
Securely share your R shiny app online with the team
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Your users securely access the R shiny app on YakData ConnectR from their browser, from anywhere in the world.
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Enhance and debug R shiny apps on ConnectR
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As user needs change, your data team can edit and enhance the app with the ConnectR editor on ConnectR, working in the same environment as the R shiny web apps.
The ConnectR Editor is a secured version of the most popular editor for R.
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Choose YakData ConnectR for your next project
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Switch to YakData ConnectR for your next project! No worries about vendor lock-in as your R shiny apps published on ConnectR can be migrated to several open source and proprietary alternatives.
Check out our recent article for an in-depth tour, Creating, optimizing and synching R shiny apps using ConnectR.
Choose YakData ConnectR for your next R shiny web app project.
Note: YakData ConnectR was previously named YakData brightRserver. Images in this article may show the previous name.
About the author
Stephen McDaniel is Co-Founder and Principal Data Scientist at YakData. ![]() ![]() ![]() |