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Posit Connect (Shiny Server)

Posit Connect is a platform for publishing your R and Python work on the web at https://rsc.stat.washington.edu.

Share Shiny applications, R Markdown reports, Plumber APIs, dashboards, Jupyter Notebooks, interactive Python content, and more.

Publishing access is open to anyone with a Statistics Computing Account

Apps can be developed and published using Statistics' Workbench Server

Read the Posit Connect User Guide to get started.

Publishing from the Statistics Posit Server

Rmarkdown and Shiny apps developed in Posit Workbench can be published on Posit Connect. To publish from Posit:

  • Look for the blue publish button to send your document or application to Posit Connect: Publish Button
    • The blue publish button can be found in these locations in Workbench:
      • The upper right of the file editor
      • The document viewer when viewing a document
      • The embedded viewer when running a Shiny application
      • The plots pane
  • Enter https://rsc.stat.washington.edu as the Posit Connect publishing destination, and follow the prompts to authenticate and complete the process

Restricting Share Access

There are four access levels for sharing applications:

  • Open to anyone
  • Limited to the UW community by requiring a NetID login
  • Limited to specific UW group
  • Limited to individual UW users

Group Access

Access can be limited to a group of UW users. This is best for:

  • Managing student access for a course
  • Managing large numbers of users
  • Granting access to users before they log in to Posit Connect (see note below in "Individual Access")
  • Using an existing UW group (https://groups.uw.edu/) to manage access

Email help@stat.washington.edu to get started with group access.

Individual Access

  • Use Specific Users & Groups to select individual UW users to share access with.
  • Posit Connect is only aware of individual users that have logged in previously to Posit Connect. To give access to users before they log in, see Group Access.

Custom URLs

By default, Posit Connect applications are published without meaningful URLs. You can request a custom URL for your application by emailing help@stat.washington.edu, for example https://rsc.stat.washington.edu/yourapp.

URLs are only available under the rcs.stat.washington.edu domain name.