3 Powerful R Alternatives to Shiny Web Development That You Should Know About

Is Shiny the only way to develop web applications in R?

That’s what I used to believe. But there are three powerful and easier alternatives that you should know about.

Pros and Cons of each alternative:

1. OpenCpu

Pros: you can use your R model as is without any change and plug it to the Web.

Cons: Front end needs to be built in HTML , CSS and JavaScript

2. Plumber

Pros: easy to dockerize your R model and serve it on every cloud server as service.

Cons: Front end needs to be builit in HTML, CSS and JavaScript

3. Crosstalk

Pros: Serverless, can be easily integrated into your Rmarkdown or Quarto webpage.

Cons: Limited to a few htmlwidgets.

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