Run Shiny app as a local job with API

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading rstudioapi::jobRunScript and comparing it with the RStudio local-job button behavior described in the issue. Determine whether a direct API function can provide the same workflow without a separate R script; done means the requested behavior is exposed and verified against that use case.

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Description

Preview versions of Rstudio (1.3.x) allow a user to run Shiny application as a local job. I cannot find any simple way to achieve this by any simple mean. It would be nice to offer new function in rstudioapi which can handle it the same way as the button in RStudio do. With rstudioapi::jobRunScript, it is easy to start the app, but it seems necessary to have separate Rscript. Why is not it possible to call, say, function directly, without the need of any separate file?

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