GA failure to deploy shiny app issue

[AnneMTreasure]

GitHub Action working for weeks, suddenly failed to deploy Shiny app

[AnneMTreasure]

Edited the update_shiny.yml and DESCRIPTION file

• in update_shiny.yml switched to ubuntu server (runs-on: ubuntu-latest)
• in update_shiny.yml, edited the steps to use r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2, which installs all package dependencies defined in the DESCRIPTION file
• see https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/setup-r-dependencies
• in update_shiny.yml, also edited the setup R script as per script on r-lib GitHub page above

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: setup R
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2

      - name: Setup R Dependencies
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
        with:
          cache-version: 2

• in update_shiny.yml, deleted all the install.packages script and added these packages to the DESCRIPTION file
• included the package terra to the DESCRIPTION file - the GitHub Action error logs showed this package to be needed, but not installing
• added library(terra) to the shiny app.R

[AnneMTreasure]

on this webpage https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65860635/caching-github-actions-r-packages-or-otherwise-speeding-up-installation

This comment was useful (the advice in the second paragraph is maybe something to try)?

I believe next you would want to take advantage of r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2 action, which will install all package dependencies defined in your DESCRIPTION file. setup-r-dependencies

This package features: Setting up a dependency cache using actions/cache. This should cut runtimes in half. Also I think the environment variable: R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES: never should be set which uses binaries.

[AnneMTreasure]

GitHub action failing to deploy Shiny app