jobRunScript not working

[OldMortality]

Hi,

I would like to run jobRunScript from the rstudioapi package, but I am not having much luck with it.

library(rstudioapi)
jobRunScript(path = '~/STATS/rscripts/helloworld.R')

Error: Function runScriptJob not found in RStudio.

Strange that I am calling jobRunScript, but runScriptJob is not found. What might be going on?

I am using:
Rstudio version 1.0.143
R version 3.6.0
rstudioapi package 0.10.
on the mac.

Many thanks,

Michel

[andresrcs]

Since you have posted on this category, I assume you are trying to run a job from a shiny app but I don't think this is going to work since, as far as I know, you can only use that function with a running RStudio session and that is not the case with apps running on shiny-server.

[OldMortality]

Hi, thank you for your response. Yes, that is precisely what I was hoping to do. In fact, I was hoping to follow thilo's workaround in this post:

Calling one shiny app from within my shiny app

There is no direct way to launch a shiny app from within another shiny app. Calling runApp() inside a shiny app will result in this error, Warning: Error in shiny::runApp: Can't callrunApp()from withinrunApp(). If your application code containsrunApp(), please remove it. But, with RStudio 1.2 there is a workaround. We can store runApp() of second app in an R script and execute this script as a separate R Studio Job. This will start the second shiny app in a new session without stopping the first one. Code: script.R shiny::runApp(path_to_app, launch.browser = TRUE, port = 875) ui.R actionButton("launch_app", "Launch second Shiny App") server.R observeEvent(input$launch_app, { …

Do you think that can not be done?

Many thanks,

Michel

[andresrcs]

@OldMortality

Do you think that can not be done?

I believe that walk-around solution relies on launching the app from RStudio IDE and not directly from shiny-server, I have no experience with that kind of deployment (although I know some people use it) so I can't tell if is actually possible (or recommended).

[OldMortality]

I am running this from rstudio. I simply type those 2 commands (library() and jobRunScript() . in the console window of rstudio.

As it is, it is not related to rshiny. The script simply says "print('hello world'). So I am running jobRunScript, as described in the documentation, but it gives me an error. So I think that's a bug in jobRunScript.

If I open a new terminal, and run R, and then run jobRunScript(..) . it says
"RStudio not running",
which is also peculiar, because rstudio is running.