Shiny R get access to colleagues without needing to download the data

Question

I have developed a Shiny App that provides some plots which can be filtered and "play" around them. The thing is, I would like to:

1. Give access to some colleagues. This means that I would like the app to be private, so when someone access the link, a password is needed to enter.

2. Don't let the user manage the data. I mean, I don't want the user to download the data, so I would like the data be already "there", in a server or something like that. This part should be my responsability, to put the data available for the rest of the colleagues.

I wonder if these things are possible.

Answer 1

• For #1 Have a look at shinymanager package, as per this example
• For #2 Save the data as a .csv or .rds in the same directory as the app, and load it on visit. You can also utilize shinyjs::hide and shinyjs::show also if you like to make the download buttons invisible