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Client for the PROOF API
http://getwilds.org/proofr/
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Add guidance for connecting to Shiny-created server #20

Closed vortexing closed 3 months ago

vortexing commented 5 months ago

... via the shiny app, can we provide some guidance about how to then connect to that server via proofr in R? Do we need to make a new server via proofr? Can you get your token from the app? I'd hope not, right?

dtenenba commented 5 months ago

token <- proof_authenticate(username, password) will give you your token, then proof_status(token=token)$cromwellUrl will return the proof server URL.

tefirman commented 3 months ago

The more I think about this, I don't think we need this guidance for two reasons:

  1. I don't envision a ton of cross-platform usage, feels like most users will either use the command line or the GUI, but not both.
  2. Even if someone does this, the proof_start function still won't allow them to create another server, it just returns Error: Conflict (HTTP 409) Job is already running. At that point, it feels logical for them to go to proof_status to identify the existing server's details.

Closing this for now, but can definitely reopen if people disagree.