Deploying desktop apps with R

[ehinman]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It is hard to know how many users the online shiny app can support and how much data they can pull/work with. Currently, the proto app has difficulty with two instances of the app running at the same time.

Describe the solution you'd like
One alternative to using online cloud services might be to create an application that users can download to run the shiny app locally. See links:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15884975/possible-to-run-rshiny-app-without-opening-an-r-environment
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2014/04/deploying-desktop-apps-with-r/
https://foretodata.com/how-to-make-a-standalone-desktop-application-with-shiny-and-electron-on-windows/

[cristinamullin]

Can explore this further but having R as a basic requirement is reasonable.