Is there any easy way to make a desktop app in R that doesn't require installing R

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I wrote a simple R program and want to share it with my office. Most people in my office are not familiar with R and I imagine it could be kind of confusing for them to install R and all the required packages.

Is there an easy way I can share an R script that can take user inputs & share output that doesn't require R installation on the user's end? I'm thinking something like Shiny, but for desktop use.

this has gotten asked fairly often over the years, and I think the answer is usually "no" ... — Ben Bolker, May 02 '17 at 22:22
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730350/embed-an-r-process-in-a-vba-macro ,,,, but close vote as request for tool recommendation. — IRTFM, May 02 '17 at 23:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '17 at 22:54

Your users can run R in an R jupyter notebook that you have set up in advance on some server. Then it's not a "desktop app" per se but it's going to look like it is running in their local web browser like Firefox or Chrome etc. Sharing R code you wrote will work excellently this way.

Is there any easy way to make a desktop app in R that doesn't require installing R

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