Deploying a Shiny app using a self-written package

Question

I have a working shiny app which uses library(coral), where coral is a package I wrote myself, installed in the directory of the shiny app.

When I attempt to deploy my

Answer 1

shinyapps.io has the devtools package, and it can install packages from GitHub, if you don't mind putting your package there:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("youruser/yourpackage")

devtools has other functions too to install from other sources, for example install_bitbucket() from bitbucket, install_url() from an arbitrary url and install_file() from a local file on disk.

To install from a local directory, you can use install:

devtools::install('path/to/r/package/dir')