Guides for NeuroBorder Shiny App

r
neuroborder
shiny
Author

Rui Yang

Published

November 20, 2024

Modified

September 16, 2025

1 Introduction

For convenience of internal use, NeuroBorder Shiny App is also deployed in Ubuntu Linux. It can be visited via https://172.16.50.209/r-shiny/neuroborder/, which is an internal IP and not a permanent IP. This means that it cannot be visited outside and may be changed in the future. If it’s invalid sometime in the future, please let me know. I will update it as I can.

2 Notes for Graph Apps

  1. ggplot2 aesthetic specifications: you can find supported formats for ggplot2 aesthetics of color, line type, point shape, etc. here.

3 Download and run NeuroBorder Shiny App in your laptop

3.1 Install R, Rtools, RStudio

Download and install suitable versions of R and/or Rtools (recommended for Windows users) for your computer from the offical R website or more directly from some mirrors of it, like TUNA Team of Tsinghua University.

It’s highly recommended to download and install suitable version of RStudio for your computer from the offical RStudio website although this is unnecessary for running NeuroBorder Shiny App. But it can provide a great deal of convenience for you to use R.

3.2 Install R packages

Open your R/RStudio, and paste the following code into your console, and enter to run it:

install.packages("FactoMineR")
install.packages("aplot")
install.packages("bslib")
install.packages("digest")
install.packages("enrichplot")
install.packages("ggforce")
install.packages("gginnards")
install.packages("ggnewscale")
install.packages("ggprism")
install.packages("ggrepel")
install.packages("ggtext")
install.packages("glue")
install.packages("magrittr")
install.packages("scales")
install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("stringr")
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("uuid")
install.packages("openxlsx")
install.packages("vroom")
install.packages("jsonlite")
install.packages("DT")
install.packages("unigd")

3.3 Download and run NeuroBorder Shiny App

Now, you can download the NeuroBorder Shiny App from here. And then just click Clone/Download \(\to\) Download ZIP step by step.

Once you have downloaded and unzipped it, you will find a file named app.R, which is the top entry for this app. Of course, you don’t need to care about what it is.

Next, open your R/RStudio, and paste the following code into your console, and enter to run it:

shiny::runApp(appDir = "C:/Users/yangrui/Downloads/NeuroBorder-ShinyWebApp-main", launch.browser = TRUE)

NOTE: you should replace the path C:/Users/yangrui/Downloads/NeuroBorder-ShinyWebApp-main with yours. This is a path to the directory containing app.R.

In theory, the system’s default web browser will be launched automatically after the app is started. If it is not the case, you can find the listening address from its output like Listening on http://127.0.0.1:3593, and paste http://127.0.0.1:3593 to your browser yourself. So far, you can use it just like a web page.

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