Using local package for a shiny app in shinyapps.io

woodward · June 17, 2020, 7:51pm

Can you use something like packrat?

How to manage R package dependencies for shiny app deployment (docker) Package Management

I am looking for best practises on package dependency management as I am going to deploy a shiny app. My goal is to have an infrastructure which allows me to easily develop new features locally, have these automatically tested (e.g. Gitlab CI) and deployed to a server. Docker seems to be a good choice for this task. My question is mainly how I should take care of the packages my app depends on. Options: checkpoint: Only works with CRAN packages and not local packages and there seems to be a bug regarding setting the repos option: Checkpoint Issue Microsoft R Open: Similar to checkpoint and a bit too fixed on old package versions without the chance to use newer package releases on CRAN or …