Restart an application — twinkle

Tell shiny to restart an application. This will trigger for both the staging and production versions. This needs to be done rarely, but would be needed in the case where the library has been updated but the application source has not in order to force shiny to pick up the new packages.

Usage

twinkle_restart(name, production)

Arguments

name: Name of the application within the twinkle configuration. We don't check that the application actually exists within your configuration (or indeed even read your configuration at all) because the application for deletion might have been removed from the configuration already.
production: Logical, indicating if we should restart the production version (rather than the staging version).

Value

Nothing

Details

This will not work for multiple applications that are present within a directory! We would need to extend things so that we knew where these different applications were (either in the configuration file, or by applying heuristics through the source tree) and touch a file in every sub application. This has historically been an issue for the old odin/shiny shortcourse app, but that is now obsolete. You can always restart the server itself of course.