Merge pull request #614 from Athanasiamo/patch-1

added some debug for R shiny

docs/source/faq.rst

@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Only R 3.4.4 is currently supported, which is installed via ``apt`` from the
 `ubuntu bionic repository <https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/r-base>`_.
 
 
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 Why is my repository is failing to build with ``ResolvePackageNotFound`` ?
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@@ -147,3 +149,17 @@ notebooks (among others).
     the container, use the ``--volumes`` option instead. Similarly,
     for a fully customized user Dockerfile, this option is not
     guaranteed to work.
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+Why is my R shiny app not launching?
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+If you are trying to run an R shiny app using the ``/shiny/folder_containing_shiny``
+url option, but the launch returns "The application exited during initialization.",
+there might be something wrong with the specification of the app. One way of debugging
+the app in the container is by running the ``rstudio`` url, open either the ui or 
+server file for the app, and run the app in the container rstudio. This way you can 
+see the rstudio logs as it tries to initialise the shiny app. If you a missing a 
+package or other dependency for the container, this will be obvious at this stage.
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