Port shiny app to jake's account

[jhofman]

Looks like I'm having an renv issue running the shiny app. Here's the output from clicking "Run App: in app.R:

> shiny::runApp()
Loading required package: shiny
Warning in loadSupport(appDir, renv = sharedEnv, globalrenv = NULL) :
  Loading R/ subdirectory for Shiny application, but this directory appears to contain an R package. Sourcing files in R/ may cause unexpected behavior.
ℹ Loading datamations
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'dplyr' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'gganimate' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'magick' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'purrr' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'vegawidget' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'forcats' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'tidyselect' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'reactable' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'shinyWidgets' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'shinydashboard' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'shinyAce' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'palmerpenguins' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'golem' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'styler' not available.
Warning in (function (dep_name, dep_ver = "*")  :
  Dependency package 'shinyjs' not available.
Error: Dependency package(s) 'dplyr','gganimate','magick','purrr','vegawidget','forcats','tidyselect','reactable','shinyWidgets','shinydashboard','shinyAce','palmerpenguins','golem','styler','shinyjs' not available.
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.

[sharlagelfand]

Sounds like you need to run the renv setup first to catch up your package library - renv::restore()

[sharlagelfand]

@giorgi-ghviniashvili here is the shiny app URL for debugging: https://sharlagelfand.shinyapps.io/datamations/

[giorgi-ghviniashvili]

Hi @sharlagelfand , I see that this function is not called at all when I click Go:

No breakpoints are hit and nothing is printed in console. Can you make sure that this function is fired and app is really initialized?

Also would be great to save app in window using window.app, but first make sure that it is really called.

[sharlagelfand]

thanks @giorgi-ghviniashvili - that's the issue I was seeing, that the JS code is not called at all in the deployed version. It works fine locally but somehow the function is never called when deployed. Thanks for confirming! Will see if I can debug any more today, or at least roll back to a version where it was working.

[sharlagelfand]

Not having any luck deploying earlier versions either, unfortunately (cc @jhofman) - even versions from the summer! Wondering if something is up with shinyapps.io

[jhofman]

That's super strange!

I can confirm that it works fine locally for me as well.

Do you think it's worth trying to get a simple reprex of this that we could post on the Shinyapps support form?

[sharlagelfand]

I have a repo here with a minimal example that I can't get deployed at all - curious if you can @jhofman, or if not could be a good candidate for debugging the deployment, then using as a minimal example for posting.

[jhofman]

interestingly it now looks like https://sharlagelfand.shinyapps.io/datamations/ is mostly working, but it generates a NULL legend for the default datamation that shouldn't be there. (unclear to me which version of datamations is actually pushed to sharla's shiny app account.)

this legend issue might be fixed in the gemini2 branch, but there's something else broken in the shiny app on that branch. (undefined type in spec.sequence.length and source.sequence.length).

@giorgi-ghviniashvili will run the shiny app locally in the gemini2 branch and debug these console error messages.

once we get that done we can push the shiny app to my account.

p.s. for future reference, we had to update the htmlwidgets yaml file to include custom-animation.

[giorgi-ghviniashvili]

@jhofman managed to run the app, but now getting this error. Do you have any idea what error it is?

"Invalid First Argument"

[jhofman]

i'm able to run the shiny app on both the main branch (commit 06aa36) and the gemini2 branch (commit 76d6b05).

@giorgi-ghviniashvili: can you try to debug and see what fittings[[1]] is set to when that breaks?

[giorgi-ghviniashvili]

@jhofman fittings[[1]] = small_salary

But when I do get(fittings[[1]]), it has an error:

My understanding is that maybe get function comes from a different version of R package. So version mismatch might be a problem and can't find out how to solve.

[jhofman]

@willdebras, can you check that this is working for you on shinyapps.io?

[willdebras]

FYI, the app itself runs fine for me, but I have been running into deployment errors:

Error: Unhandled Exception: Child Task 1101457254 failed: Error parsing manifest: GithubUsername must be specified for GitHub package source Execution halted

I can't quite isolate if there are issues with my renv environment. I've tried fresh restore of renv, updating and snapshotting of renv after updating rsconnect (since this issue seemed prominent in past versions).

https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/308

renv.lock file seems fine. Has anybody else ran into this error?

[willdebras]

Weirdly rsconnect::writeManifest does not write a json object for the datamations package. I'm not certain this is expected?

[jhofman]

we discussed a debugging strategy here to figure out if it's something about renv, about datamations, or something else.

current thinking is first to try to deploy the simplified test app that doesn't use renv at all: https://github.com/sharlagelfand/datamationstest

from there we can try the same but using renv to manage packages and then expand to the full shiny app both with and without renv if need be.

[willdebras]

Currently have the full demo app without renv and without golem deployed to shinyapps.io. Working on deploying the golem based application without renv and this version with renv to isolate issues with the environment.

[jhofman]

we still have the issue of @giorgi-ghviniashvili not being able to run the R code as per this earlier comment: https://github.com/microsoft/datamations/issues/129#issuecomment-1010864669

@giorgi-ghviniashvili, can you re-pull main and try to re-install the library?

steps for @giorgi-ghviniashvili:

1. Re-run devtools::install_github("microsoft/datamations") or clone the repo and run R CMD build. More here for command line or using Rstudio.
2. If there are errors, run sessionInfo() and paste that here so we know what package versions had trouble, along with the error message.

if it's still broken, @willdebras, can you see if you can help?

[jhofman]

@giorgi-ghviniashvili, can you post the error message you're getting from R here?

[jhofman]

@willdebras has redesigned the shiny app, will send instructions to @jhofman on how to run locally and on shinyapps.io