Error in installing shinyapps package from github

Question

I am trying to install the shinyapps package from its development page at Github to deploy my application to the shinyapps.io service. I am using the this code as described in http://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/shinyapps.html

devtools::install_github('rstudio/shinyapps')

However, I am getting the following error message:

Downloading github repo rstudio/shinyapps@master
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : 
Failed to connect to api.github.com port 443: Connection refused

Any idea about why and how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

I made a more intensive search on this issue and I found that I needed to run this line:

install_github("hadley/pryr")

and then the line for installing shinayapps:

devtools::install_github('rstudio/shinyapps')

It worked fine for me!