Puppet Class: shiny_server

Defined in:
modules/shiny_server/manifests/init.pp

Overview

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Class: shiny_sever

Shiny Server enables users to host and manage Shiny applications on the Internet. Shiny is an R package that uses a reactive programming model to simplify the development of R-powered web applications. Shiny Server can manage R processes running various Shiny applications over different URLs and ports.

This module sets up a Shiny Server service running on port 3838 and installs several R packages that are necessary for Shiny applications, including some that have been shown in practice to be useful.

*Note*: that the CRAN mirror below is configured to use the UC Berkeley mirror of CRAN (cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/) as it is a trusted repository that also supports HTTPS. The default is 'cloud.r-project.org', which provides automatic redirection to servers worldwide (sponsored by RStudio). For a list of CRAN mirrors, see cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html



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# File 'modules/shiny_server/manifests/init.pp', line 20

class shiny_server {
    # `include ::r` would not install devtools, which would mean that we could
    # not install R packages from Git/GitHub
    class { 'r_lang':
        devtools => true,
    }

    $essentials = [
        'gfortran', 'g++',
        'libssl-dev', 'libcurl4-openssl-dev', 'libxml2-dev', 'libssh2-1-dev',
        'libcairo2-dev', 'gdebi', 'pandoc'
    ]
    ensure_packages($essentials)

    # Install R packages from CRAN, Gerrit, and GitHub:
    $cran_mirror = 'https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu'
    r_lang::cran { 'rmarkdown':
        require => Package['pandoc'],
        mirror  => $cran_mirror,
    }
    # tidyverse includes packages such as dplyr, tidyr, magrittr, readr,
    # ggplot2, broom, purrr, rvest, forcats, lubridate, and jsonlite
    # It's a lot of packages so we *really* need to extend the timeout.
    r_lang::cran { 'tidyverse':
        timeout => 12000,
        mirror  => $cran_mirror,
    }
    $cran_packages = [
        # Shiny Dashboarding
        'shiny', 'shinyjs', 'shinyWidgets', # shiny essentials
        'shinydashboard', 'flexdashboard',  # dashboarding
        'shinythemes',                      # bootstrap themes
        'shinyLP',                          # landing home pages for shiny apps
        # Data Manipulation
        'data.table',                       # fast data frames
        'plyr', 'reshape2',                 # pre-tidyr/dplyr wrangling pkgs
        'zoo', 'xts',                       # for working with time series data
        # Data Visualization
        'dygraphs',                         # time series plots
        'DT',                               # data tables
        # Misc.
        'knitr', 'markdown',
        'optparse'                          # needed for /etc/update-pkg.R
    ]
    r_lang::cran { $cran_packages: mirror => $cran_mirror }

    # Set up files, directories, and users required for RStudio's Shiny Server:
    user { 'shiny':
        ensure => 'present',
        groups => 'root',
    }

    file { '/srv/shiny-server':
        ensure => 'directory',
        owner  => 'shiny',
        group  => 'root',
        mode   => '2670',
    }

    file { '/etc/shiny-server':
        ensure => 'directory',
        owner  => 'root',
        group  => 'root',
        mode   => '2770',
    }

    file { '/etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf':
        ensure => 'present',
        source => 'puppet:///modules/shiny_server/shiny-server.conf',
        owner  => 'root',
        group  => 'root',
        mode   => '0660',
    }

    # Assuming shiny-server-1.5.3.838-amd64.deb exists in the WMF apt repo...
    ensure_packages('shiny-server')

    service { 'shiny-server':
        ensure => 'running',
        enable => true,
    }

}