Inconsistent deployment to Rstudio-Connect

Yes, I am running devtools::install_github. I install two packages before this one using it.

The only reason I am using a remote package is because the CRAN version of this package won't load. I am getting errors on the server due to one of the dependencies (OpenMx), similar to this: gcc - Installing OpenMx package in R on Ubuntu 18.04LTS - Stack Overflow.

writeManifest ran successfully:

"semPlot": {
      "Source": "github",
      "Repository": null,
      "description": {
        "Package": "semPlot",
        "Type": "Package",
        "Title": "Path Diagrams and Visual Analysis of Various SEM Packages'\nOutput",
        "Version": "1.1.5",
        "Authors@R": "c(\n  person(\"Sacha\", \"Epskamp\", email = \"mail@sachaepskamp.com\",role = c(\"aut\", \"cre\")),\n  person(\"Simon\", \"Stuber\", role = c(\"ctb\")),\n  person(\"Jason\", \"Nak\", role = c(\"ctb\")),\n  person(\"Myrthe\", \"Veenman\", role = c(\"ctb\")),\n  person(given = c(\"Terrence\",\"D.\"), family = \"Jorgensen\", role = c(\"ctb\"), comment = c(ORCID = \"0000-0001-5111-6773\"))\n  )",
        "Maintainer": "Sacha Epskamp <mail@sachaepskamp.com>",
        "Depends": "R (>= 2.15.0)",
        "Suggests": "MplusAutomation (>= 0.5-3)",
        "Imports": "qgraph (>= 1.2.4), lavaan (>= 0.5-11), sem (>= 3.1-0), plyr,\nXML, igraph (>= 0.6-3), lisrelToR, rockchalk, colorspace,\ncorpcor, methods",
        "ByteCompile": "yes",
        "Description": "Path diagrams and visual analysis of various SEM packages' output.",
        "URL": "https://github.com/SachaEpskamp/semPlot",
        "License": "GPL-2",
        "LazyLoad": "yes",
        "RemoteType": "github",
        "RemoteHost": "api.github.com",
        "RemoteRepo": "semPlot",
        "RemoteUsername": "melissagwolf",
        "RemoteRef": "packrat_errors",
        "RemoteSha": "6041366e37fc6f4509e17d09541ac69159c32238",
        "GithubRepo": "semPlot",
        "GithubUsername": "melissagwolf",
        "GithubRef": "packrat_errors",
        "GithubSHA1": "6041366e37fc6f4509e17d09541ac69159c32238",
        "NeedsCompilation": "no",
        "Packaged": "2023-11-07 10:22:03 UTC; missg",
        "Author": "Sacha Epskamp [aut, cre],\n  Simon Stuber [ctb],\n  Jason Nak [ctb],\n  Myrthe Veenman [ctb],\n  Terrence D. Jorgensen [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6773>)",
        "Built": "R 4.3.0; ; 2023-11-07 10:22:04 UTC; windows"
      }
    }

This is another example of an error I got from the same attempted deployment: Unable to publish Shiny App on Rstudio-Connect, with lme4.

I just tried pushing the app again with the CRAN version of the package (semPlot) and it suddenly went through, although the app has been stuck loading for the last 20 minutes. I did not do anything, so I am not sure why the OpenMx error suddenly went away?

In general, everything feels very unstable and I do not understand why errors are appearing and disappearing.