Struggling to deploy a Shiny App with private GitHub packages as dependencies

[md0u80c9]

Hi,

I'm new to using Shinyapps.io. I wanted to deploy a small test app to see if it was suitable for scale.

I have built a shiny app which has 3 package dependencies for custom built packages sat in private GitHub repositories.

I have a PAT set up for GitHub, and building the package with: devtools::install_github("md0u80c9/SSNAPInterface") works - if I use the force parameter I can successfully force a rebuild.

In the Shinyapps.io settings panel, I have also checked the box marked 'Private Repository Access'

However, when I come to deploy the shiny app, I then see the error:
Error: Unhandled Exception: Child Task 665069826 failed: Error building image: Error fetching ssnapinterface (0.0.1) source. Error accessing GitHub repository md0u80c9/SSNAPInterface. Not Found

Can anyone think of anything else I need to check that would cause this to fail? Or anything else I need to do or should try to isolate what the problem is?

[josh]

Is this a fork or the original repository?

[md0u80c9]

it’s a private repo which was itself a fork from another private repo. Does that make a difference?

[josh]

I'm not sure, just gathering some information to try to understand why it isn't working.

Are you able to point to the original private repo successfully? Or any other private repo?

[md0u80c9]

Hi josh,

I haven’t tried that - I can try to do that in the next day or so (just away on a break at the moment).

I have done a rebuild into a public repo - which worked flawlessly but obviously has the problem of exposing the package as a public repo (which is not the end of the world but not desirable just yet - the package does analysis stuff that we would rather people used ‘validated’ toolsets for rather than rolled their own from forked versions of the source).

So I can do a rebuild into a private repo (or hopefully just flick a switch on the rebuilt repo to make it private).