Install plumber server
This is intended for a Ubuntu 20.04 server: sudo apt-get install git-core libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev curl libsodium-dev libxml2-dev sudo R install.packages("plumber") q("no") mkdir plumberapp cd plumberapp vi plumber.R ## Copy these lines # plumber.R #* Echo back the input #* @param msg The message to echo #* @get /echo function(msg="") { list(msg = paste0("The message is: '", msg, "'")) } ## End vi myapi.R ## Copy these lines r <- plumber::plumb("/home/mgirond/plumberapp/plumber.R") r$run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000) ## End vi my-api.service ## Copy these lines [Unit] Description=plumber service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/Rscript /home/mgirond/plumberapp/myapi.R [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ## End sudo ufw allow 8000/tcp cp my-api.service /etc/systemd/system/my-api.service systemctl start my-api systemctl enable my-api sudo reboot Then it is possible to test the API: curl "http://localh...