Shinyapps.io和github软件包

Question

I have a shiny program in R that works great. But I am having trouble deploying it to shinyapps.io.

The javascript error console gives me the following error:

Listening on http://127.0.0.1:46574
  Downloading github repo jlisic/saAlloc@master
  Installing saAlloc
  '/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --vanilla CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpvmoFM3/devtools2c6b564aad/jlisic-saAlloc-62692fc'  \
  --library='/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' --install-tests 

Error: ERROR: no permission to install to directory ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
Error : Command failed (1)

There is nothing fancy about my package it just has a default Makevars file. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have also been struggling with this issue, and I just found a working answer in the shinyapps.io Google users group by @Yihui. Quoting his post:

You should not install the package inside your app (ie do not call install_github() in your app code). Just install it locally, and shinyapps.io will figure out how to install it on the server.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/shinyapps-users/5S8jTJ-SeHM/HCPGUjYVUM4J

Removing the devtools::install_github() line in server.R worked for me. Back end magic!

EDIT: The reason why this works is explained in more detail in this rsconnect issue: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect/issues/88