A simple HTTP server to serve files under a given directory based on the httpuv package.
You can install this package from CRAN (stable version) via install.packages('servr')
or r-universe.dev (development version).
This package is licensed under GPL.
To some degree, this package is like python -m SimpleHTTPServer
or python -m http.server
. It may be used to serve:
You can either run servr::httd()
in an interactive R session, or run from command line:
# default: port 4321, do not launch browser Rscript -e "servr::httd()" # open a web browser Rscript -e "servr::httd()" -b # listen on port 4000 Rscript -e "servr::httd()" -p4000 # pass arguments to the httd() function Rscript -e "servr::httd(,4000,TRUE)"
There is also a shell script under system.file('bin', package = 'servr')
; if it is added to PATH
, you can simply run
servr # serve the current directory servr -b # launch the browser servr -b -p4000 # change port to 4000Serve and watch a directory
Similar to httd()
, the function httw()
can both serve and watch a directory. If you are viewing an HTML file in the browser, it will be automatically refreshed whenever there are any changes in the directory (e.g. you added, deleted, or modified certain files in the directory).
Besides httd()
, there are functions jekyll()
, rmdv1()
, and rmdv2()
in this package to serve HTML files generated from R Markdown documents (via knitr or rmarkdown). R Markdown documents can be automatically re-compiled when their HTML output files are older than the corresponding source files, and HTML pages in the web browser can be automatically refreshed accordingly, so you can focus on writing R Markdown documents, and results will be updated on the fly in the web browser. This is even more useful when you write R Markdown documents in the RStudio IDE, because the HTML files are displayed in the RStudio viewer pane, and you can put the source document and its output side by side.
The function vign()
can be used to serve R Markdown/HTML package vignettes. The HTML output files are generated and displayed in the web browser so you can preview the vignettes, and they will be cleaned up after they are loaded in the web browser to make sure your source package is clean.
All server functions can be used in the daemonized mode, i.e., they can be non-blocking in the R session, which allows you to continue working in the R console after the server is launched. This mode can be set via the argument daemon = TRUE
in most server functions. See ?server_config
for more information.
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