Republishing to RPubs
Manual Success
RStudio Republish Doesn’t work

GOVT2306, Instructor: Tom Hanna, Fall 2023, University of Houston

2023-10-12

Posit working on a bug fix!

I submitted the bug fix to the folks at Posit.com and they determined that it is a bug in the “Publish” button. They know the specific code and have a fix. I suspect this will not be out for a little while because they just released a stable build in September (with Copilot!) but it will be fixed. In the meanwhile, you can manually update RPubs using the code I used in later slides. It’s not quite as convenient as the button, but not too difficult.

Record of RPubs Republish attempts

This is a slightly edited version of attempts to republish to RPubs.

Back story: I attempted to use the Publish and Republish buttons in the R Studio IDE to publish to RPubs several times. I kept receiving the same error message reported to other users. I tried with the same results on 3 different systems:

System 1

System 1: 5 year old Dell G15 running Windows 11 latest build, 8th gen Intel i7 Core processor, 1TB solid state drive, 32GB Ram, 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. Latest stable build of R. Latest stable build of R Studio. All packages fully up to date. (Running on Verizon 5G Home Internet)

System 2

System 2: Very old Acer Aspire Laptop running Kubuntu 22.04 latest stable build. 16GB Ram, 500 GB hard drive. Latest stable build of R. Latest stable build of R Studio. All packages fully up to date. (Running on an R1 research university’s network)

System 3

System 3: Two day old Dell G16 running Windows 11 updated last night, 13th gen Intel i7 Core processor, 1TB solid state drive, 32GB Ram, 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. Latest stable build of R. Latest stable build of R Studio. All packages fully up to date. (Running on Verizon 5G Home Internet)

Let’s see if it will update!

Changing something, rendering the new output, and then I will try to Republish.

Attempt #1

Received this error:

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Failure when receiving data from the peer Calls: -> http -> Execution halted

Attempt #2: New Publishing attempt

I am going to use the recommended code to publish instead of the Publish and Republish buttons in R Studio.

First, I will publish with:

rsconnect::rpubsUpload()

Attempt 2: Initial result

This is the result of the first attempt:

rsconnect::rpubsUpload(“test”,“test.html”,“test.qmd”) $id [1] “https://api.rpubs.com/api/v1/document/1096143/sortakindaf946535d7f7xxxxxyyyyyzzzzznotexactlyright”

Attempt 2: Republishing

I will now try to republish with:

rsconnect::rpubsUpload(“test”,“test.html”,“test.qmd”, id = “https://api.rpubs.com/api/v1/document/1096143/somethinglikef946535d7f7046fxxxxxxxxxxxxxyz”)

Trying that because that is what Copilot suggested in for the ID and I am not sure what it needs. I would assume it just needs numbers, not the full URL. The manual just says to use “id = result$id”, so that is not especially helpful.

Attempt #3: Just testing

Attempt #2 seems to have worked, so I am going to try to publish this additional slide.

Cleanup: Success!

I realized I had included the “claim URL,” so I deleted that after successfully claiming the URL to my account:

http://rpubs.com/tomhanna-uh/1096143

Conclusion: R Studio Bug

This appears to be a bug in R Studio.

I will attempt to file a bug report, but they make it very difficult, so I will update this and the original once the bug is fixed.

First attempt using only R Studio

The first attempt using only R Studio is here as a record until the IDE is fixed:

https://rpubs.com/tomhanna-uh/testing_rpubs_publishing_update

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Fall 2023, Instructor: Tom Hanna