App works great in R Studio and externally when R is open - however won't work in shiny apps

Doesn't seem to be any obvious issue with your code.
I just tried to deploy a simple test app and had problem that it failed to upload with similar force() related issue.
referring back to : Problem uploading app to shinyapps.io - shiny - RStudio Community
This may be an intermittent fault . It's certainly troubling.