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[Isaiah Nyabuto <isaiahnyabuto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the clarification.

I suppose running the app externally will work well in this case. No need
to write another app to connect shiny server with dhis2.

Thanks.






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Isaiah Nyabuto
+254729572616
Bsc. Health Records Management and Informatics

On Dec 18, 2017 22:54, "Jason Pickering" <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi  Isaiah,
>
> Shiny apps are written in the R programming language, so you would need to
> run this on an external R server, and then use another app (I guess) to
> connect with DHIS2 to the Shiny server.
>
> DHIS2 itself has no capability to  run Shiny apps, which must be written
> in pure HTML and JavaScript and utilize only the native API of DHIS2. If
> you are using external services, such as Shiny, you would need to take that
> into account in your DHIS2 facing app.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Isaiah Nyabuto <isaiahnyabuto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Has anyone ever tried to install  shiny app in dhis2?
>>
>> I am not able to install my shiny app. I get an error when uploading the
>> zip file: Manifest file missing.
>>
>> Does dhis2 support shiny apps?
>>
>> Kindest regards - Isaiah
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