Packages using shinyjs can't deploy to shinyapps.io without explicitly importing V8 package

[daattali]

This issue was reported to me by @alexwhan via a pullrequest. I believe this is more of a problem with shinyapps than with my package, and the shinyapps team kind of agreed, but I'm not sure if they'll fix it. If it doesn't get resolved on shinyapps end, then I should accept the PR, or at least make a comment about it in the documentation.

related:

• Putting V8 in imports allows apps to build on shinyapps.io  #17
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/shinyapps-users/w7s4-zZDJvk

[daattali]

I've updated the documentation of extendShinyjs to reflect this problem and there is an an open issue on rstudio/shinyapps github repo for this problem. I likely will not "fix" this on my end

[jgabry]

Is this only an issue if using extendShinyjs or is this a problem even if only using functions like onclick, toggle, etc? Thanks!

[daattali]

This is only an issue when using extendShinyjs, as that is the only function that uses the V8 package. That's exactly the reason I don't want to make my package explicitly depend on V8, because the vast majority of users will never use extendShinyjs and I don't want to force an extra package installation on them.

[jgabry]

Ok thanks, that makes sense.

And thanks for the great package!

On Monday, August 3, 2015, Dean Attali notifications@github.com wrote:

This is only an issue when using extendShinyjs, as that is the only
function that uses the V8 package. That's exactly the reason I don't want
to make my package explicitly depend on V8, because the vast majority of
uses will never use extendShinyjs and I don't want to force an extra
package installation on them.

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