Azure portal, using gallery creation for VM
sudo apt-get update
to get the package repository metadatasudo apt-get install r-base
to get R. Will have lots of extra associated packages - select Y when promptedsudo su - -c "R -e \"install.packages('shiny', repos='http://cran.rstudio.com/')\""
to install shiny in Rsudo apt-get install gdebi-core
to enable processing of shiny-server installation packagewget http://download3.rstudio.org/ubuntu-12.04/x86_64/shiny-server-1.3.0.403-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi shiny-server-1.3.0.403-amd64.deb
sudo nano /etc/shiny-server/shiny-server.conf
sudo restart shiny-server