Cannot deploy with packages installed from git

[bearloga]

I noticed this issue when trying to deploy an app that uses packages hosted on our Gerrit servers. When I installed the same package from the GitHub mirror, the app deployed fine. Have not checked whether this is the case for packages installed from bitbucket, SVN, and Bioconductor because I can't think of any packages to check. Here's a reproducible example of a simple leaflet shiny app:

app.R:

# devtools::install_git("https://github.com/rstudio/leaflet.git", force = TRUE) ~ doesn't work
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/leaflet", force = TRUE) ~ works

ui <- shiny::fluidPage(
   leaflet::leafletOutput("mymap")
)

server <- function(input, output) {
  output$mymap <- leaflet::renderLeaflet({
    leaflet::addTiles(leaflet::leaflet())
  })
}

shiny::shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

Output with leaflet installed via devtools::install_git():

Preparing to deploy application...DONE
Uploading bundle for application: 216225...DONE
Deploying bundle: 986526 for application: 216225 ...
Waiting for task: 488757013
  building: Parsing manifest
  building: Building image: 984275
  building: Fetching packages
  error: Building package: leaflet
################################ Begin Task Log ################################ 
################################# End Task Log ################################# 
Error: Unhandled Exception: Child Task 488757014 failed: Error building image: Error fetching leaflet (1.1.0.9000) source. <CRANPackageSource repo='http://cran.rstudio.org'> unable to satisfy package: leaflet (1.1.0.9000)
In addition: Warning message:
In FUN(X[[i]], ...) :
  Failed to infer source for package 'leaflet'; using latest available version on CRAN instead
Execution halted

Output with leaflet installed via devtools::install_github():

Preparing to deploy application...DONE
Uploading bundle for application: 216225...DONE
Deploying bundle: 986533 for application: 216225 ...
Waiting for task: 488757428
  building: Building image: 984282
  building: Installing packages
  building: Installing files
  building: Pushing image: 984282
  deploying: Starting instances
  terminating: Stopping old instances
Application successfully deployed to https://bearloga.shinyapps.io/reprex/
Deployment completed: https://bearloga.shinyapps.io/reprex/

P.S. Using rsconnect 0.8.5

[jspiewak]

CRAN, BioConductor and GitHub are the supported package repositories on shinyapps.io.

[bearloga]

Ah, thanks. I see it's a packrat issue, not a rsconnect issue. Okie dokie!

[JiajinChen]

Could you tell me how to solve this problem?

[bearloga]

@JiajinChen you can't :\ either get the package you want to use onto CRAN, BioConductor, or GitHub, or stop using the package in the app if you're deploying to shinyapps.io

[JiajinChen]

Thanks for your reply. You mean there aren't any solution to my problem？ But the packages from Github and bioconductor is really necessary to my app.

发自网易邮箱大师 On 05/21/2018 01:13, Mikhail Popov wrote:

@JiajinChen you can't :\ either get the package you want to use onto CRAN, BioConductor, or GitHub, or stop using the package in the app if you're deploying to shinyapps.io

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[cderv]

But the packages from Github and bioconductor is really necessary to my app.

If your app depends on CRAN, Github and Biocondoctor 📦 it is ok. See the shinyapps.io documentation http://docs.rstudio.com/shinyapps.io/getting-started.html#using-your-r-packages-in-the-cloud