Using Shiny with Scheduled and Streaming Data · R Views
Note: This article is now several years old. If you have RStudio Connect, there are more modern ways of updating data in a Shiny app. Shiny applications are often backed by fluid, changing data. Data updates can occur at different time scales: from scheduled daily updates to live streaming data and ad-hoc user inputs. This article describes best practices for handling data updates in Shiny, and discusses deployment strategies for automating data updates.