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R shiny with a package installed from github

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This comes from https://github.com/jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy/issues/907 reported by @Athanasiamo:

Hi. Is there any way to install a package from github in a binderhub shiny app deploy?

I’ve tried adding devtools::install_github() in the install.R file, (after devtools install ofc), but that > does not seem to do it? At least the build is failing.

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drmowinckelscommented, Mar 8, 2019

omg! I’m missing shinydashboard from the install.R. That is pretty facepalmy. Just pushed a new version adding it, can’t believe I missed it. Hoping this is the fix to all the issues, but as you note, being able to get more info on where things are failing would be amazing. I had not even thought that the RStudio instance might be able to run the shiny app, that is a very nice trick to know for future debugging.

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drmowinckelscommented, Mar 8, 2019

the shiny app it self is running just fine locally, also in completely new R sessions. I have no experience with working with rshiny server though. This app also launches just fine on shinyapps.io, so I’m quite confident it is not the app it self, but likely something wrong in the specification between the app and repo2docker, but it is really hard to debug with the sparse information repo2docker is giving.

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