Unable to replace existing shinyapps.io already published

[rasanderson]

If a shiny application has already been published on shinyapps.io it is no longer possible to replace it. Using version 1.0.1 of rsconnect a message box pops up in RStudio asking the user to confirm that the existing app will be replaced. After confirming, the following error is displayed:

Creating application on server...
Error in `POST()`:
<[https://api.shinyapps.io/v1/applications/]> failed with HTTP status
409
Application exists with name: expt_design
Backtrace:
1. └─rsconnect::deployApp(...)
2. └─client$createApplication(...)
3. └─rsconnect:::POST_JSON(service, authInfo, "/applications/", json)
4. └─rsconnect:::POST(...)
5. └─rsconnect:::httpRequestWithBody(...)
6. └─rsconnect:::handleResponse(httpResponse, error_call = error_call)
7. └─rsconnect (local) reportError(json$error)
8. └─cli::cli_abort(...)
9. └─rlang::abort(...)
Execution halted

After downgrading rsconnect to version 0.8.29 and retrying an error message is displayed on Ubuntu 20.04, but not Windows 10. In Windows 10 downgrading to 0.8.29 provides a successful workaround for the problem. But in Ubuntu 20.04 the system detects that rsconnect is out-of-date and refuses to process it. Error message in Ubuntu 20.04 is:

Preparing to deploy document...Error: HTTP 426
GET https://api.shinyapps.io/v1/applications/?filter=account_id:668772&filter=type:shiny&filter=name:expt_design&count=100&offset=0
The rsconnect package is out of date.
 Please update to the latest available on CRAN.
Execution halted

The current environment shown by sessionInfo() in Ubuntu 20.04 is below:

sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.10       rstudioapi_0.14   knitr_1.43        magrittr_2.0.3    xtable_1.8-4      R6_2.5.1         
 [7] rlang_1.1.1       fastmap_1.1.1     tools_4.1.2       checkmate_2.2.0   xfun_0.39         cli_3.6.1        
[13] jquerylib_0.1.4   withr_2.5.0       askpass_1.1       htmltools_0.5.5   ellipsis_0.3.2    openssl_2.0.6    
[19] yaml_2.3.7        digest_0.6.31     rprojroot_2.0.3   lifecycle_1.0.3   shiny_1.7.4       later_1.3.1      
[25] sass_0.4.6        htmlwidgets_1.6.2 promises_1.2.0.1  curl_5.0.0        rsconnect_0.8.28  cachem_1.0.8     
[31] evaluate_0.21     mime_0.12         rmarkdown_2.21    bslib_0.4.2       compiler_4.1.2    learnr_0.11.4    
[37] backports_1.4.1   jsonlite_1.8.4    httpuv_1.6.11    

[aronatkins]

Would you mind testing the development version of rsconnect to confirm that we have resolved this problem?

remotes::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")

[rasanderson]

Hi - all works well now, thank you.