RStudio Shiny Errors Disappear After Refreshing Browser - r

I am building a Shiny application with four tabs, each of which displays a plot and three data tables. When I run the application via runApp('app_name'), mostly everything loads correctly. Sometimes the plot won't load, sometimes a data table won't load, and sometimes multiple things will fail to load. And there is the somewhat rare occurrence where everything loads without issue.
The errors have been mostly one of the following:
Error in eval(substitute(expr), envir, enclos) : not compatible with requested type
Error in eval(substitute(expr), envir, enclos) : expected >
Error in eval(substitute(expr), envir, enclos) : filter condition does not evaluate to a logical vector.
The errors occur seemingly randomly and I have not been able to identify any specific part of my code causing the issue. That is, I run the code outside of the Shiny application and cannot replicate the errors.
The strange thing is that the errors occur only on the first tab and disappear upon refreshing the webpage!!
I am pretty stumped with this one, so I'm wondering if anyone has been having a similar issue and how/if they resolved it.
Some other notes that may be helpful:
I'm using dplyr, tidyr, readxl, and ggplot2. I know these have been known to have some errors with shiny
My shiny app always launches with Internet Explorer 11
Thanks for the help and let me know if any further clarification can help.

Sorry for never posting a code snippet to replicate the problem, but I'm pretty sure I have figured out what was going wrong.
Firstly, I originally had library(shiny) as the first line in my ui.R and server.R scripts, followed by source('ui_functions.R') and source(server_functions.R) to reference supporting R code. I tried removing the library(shiny) command from from ui.R and server.R and miraculously the errors disappeared. I have no idea why this worked, but it did.
Secondly, I found that my code only worked on RStudio versions >= 0.99. So if you are getting strange errors like I did, maybe try updating your RStudio verion.

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