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Make shinyapps.io support pacman usage #18

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xhdong-umd opened this issue Apr 26, 2017 · 0 comments
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Make shinyapps.io support pacman usage #18

xhdong-umd opened this issue Apr 26, 2017 · 0 comments

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xhdong-umd commented Apr 26, 2017

This is done before, but worth to put into issues as we may need to deal with it later.

  • Using pacman instead of common library() in code has advantage that it will install packages not available in user's machine. So user can run from github and update packages automatically.
  • However pacman is not recognized by shinyapps.io so it will fail in deployment.
  • In the backend shinyapps.io used packrat to manage package dependencies. I made some changes to packrat to make it recognize pacman.
  • RStudio don't plan to take the change because that means they need to support the feature officially. The ideal solution is for them to have some extension mechanisms.
  • Before that, I'm using my changed fork of packrat to deploy to shinyapps.io.
@xhdong-umd xhdong-umd changed the title [Added pacman package loader support to packrat](https://github.com/rstudio/packrat/pull/360) Make shinyapps.io support pacman usage Apr 26, 2017
@xhdong-umd xhdong-umd changed the title Make shinyapps.io support pacman usage Make shinyapps.io support pacman usage Apr 26, 2017
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