deployApp() installs unnecessary packages

[Homer White]

I have an app repo that contains some R Markdown files. I use these to generate (locally) some html files that are to be read in by the that app:

homer.shinyapp.io/example_sim_07

I notice that when I inlcuded a library call to a package in one of these files, deployApp() indicated the package and its dependencies were being installed in the app:

Deploying application: 46257...
Waiting for task: 42548488
  building: Parsing manifest
  building: Building image: 198435
  building: Installing system dependencies
  building: Fetching packages
  building: Building package: mosaicData
  building: Building package: mosaic
  building: Building package: abd
  building: Building package: tigerstats
  building: Installing packages
  building: Installing files
  building: Pushing image: 198435
  deploying: Starting instances
  rollforward: Activating new instances
  terminating: Stopping old instances
Application successfully deployed to https://homer.shinyapps.io/example_sim_07

The app itself relies only upon the html documents and so does not need the packages that were used to create them. I would like to keep the R markdown documents in the repo. Is there some sort of buildignore for shinyapps that would allow specific files to be ignored when the app is deployed?

Thanks,
Homer

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[Andy Kipp]

Homer,

Are you using RStudio IDE?

-Andy

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[Andy Kipp]

I think you have two options here:

1) If you update to a recent version of the RStudio IDE you can use the "Publish" button to deploy an doc. I *think* this will ensure that only the selected doc is examined for dependencies.

2) Alternatively, you can update to the latest version of shinyapps package and use the deployDoc() function which will do the same.

To update shinyapps:

devtools::install_github('rstudio/shinyapps')

-Andy

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Homer White <homerh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes.

[Homer White]

deploy_Doc() appears to be for hosting an R Markdown document or some other single-file application.

However, I note that deployApp() has an appFiles argument.  I can use this argument, leaving out the R Markdown source files, and I should be fine.

Thanks,
Homer

[Andy Kipp]

Homer,

Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you wanted to deploy a doc while ignoring the app files. Anyway, your approach sounds good, let me know if it works ;-)

-Andy

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[Homer White]

Yes, it worked.