Shinyapps.io unable to install Github dependencies

[Simon_Smart]

I mentioned last week in [ERROR]: Application deployment failed with error: Unhandled Exception:: child_task=1480459459 that I was having the same problem as @ agdamsbo trying to deploy an app with a Github dependency, which I belatedly realised was not the same issue as the OP. I'm still having the same issue and have created a MRE which also fails to deploy, so it seems that there is a problem on shinyapps side:

devtools::install_github("simon-smart88/shinydemo")
rsconnect::deployApp(system.file('shiny/',package='shinydemo'))
── Preparing for deployment ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
✔ Re-deploying "shinydemo" using "server: shinyapps.io / username: simonsmart"
ℹ Looking up application with id "13465269"...
✔ Found application <https://simonsmart.shinyapps.io/shinydemo/>
ℹ Bundling 1 file: app.R
ℹ Capturing R dependencies with renv
✔ Found 31 dependencies
✔ Created 18,929b bundle
ℹ Uploading bundle...
✔ Uploaded bundle with id 9426054
── Deploying to server ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Waiting for task: 1483083327
  building: Processing bundle: 9426054
  building: Building image: 11574264
  building: Fetching packages
  error: Building package: shinydemo
## Begin Task Log ############################################################################################
## End Task Log ##############################################################################################
Error: Unhandled Exception: child_task=1483083328 child_task_status=failed: Error building image: Error fetching shinydemo (0.1.0) source. <GitHubPackage user='simon-smart88' repo='shinydemo' private=False> unable to satisfy package: shinydemo (0.1.0)

[Simon_Smart]

@kmcd39 I saw you opened a similar topic but then deleted it... did you work out what the problem was?

[kmcd39]

Yes! I haven't looked at your issue, but for me, the package i was using had a bunch of dependencies, including some that i didn't have installed. The package was my own, so i removed a bunch of the dependencies and made sure I was managing the imports a little more neatly, and then it worked.

But I also had just hosted the app with the package in question having its old set of dependencies, and it only didn't work when i was re-hosting, so maybe just an annoying sporadic thing.

[Simon_Smart]

@kmcd39 Thanks for the reply, but that definitely isn't the case for my MRE which has no dependencies apart from shiny.

I have fixed it now by adding GH authorisation to my shinyapps account as suggested in Unable to deploy to shinyapps.io due to package dependency but clearly that shouldn't be required!