‘Knit’ is used exclusively. ‘shiny’ is not used.
To thoroughly understand shinyapps.io, I cloned the “Simple Example” from “R Markdown Websites,” https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/rmarkdown_websites.html#simple_example. I followed the step-by-step instructions given is the section called “Site Authoring.”
Given the simplicity of the example, I expected no problems. While I was able to create a website locally, I was unable to create one with shinyapps.io.
In this website creating attempt, “Simple Example” was further simplified. The common-elements folder was removed, the site.yml file was simplified by removing the ‘navbar’ header, and about.Rmd was removed.
If the simplication works, then the following issues will be resolved.
==> rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = ‘UTF-8’)
Error in rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = “UTF-8”) : No site generator found. Execution halted
Exited with status 1.
Publish produces ‘My Website’ correctly but AccessDenied messages for “About” and" “Home”.
Error in value[3L] : app.R did not return a shiny.appobj object.
Adding “runtime: shiny” to the front matter did not create a website. In fact, it did not work locally.
“About” and" “Home” NOT FOUND on local computer.