The default html page for knitr app has links to opencpu.org server, so the POST was going to public server instead of going to my server, no wonder my packages weren't showing up !
Comments: when i run find.package("DummyPkg") through the /R/pub/base/identity/json API , I do get back [ "/usr/lib/R/library/DummyPkg" ]
However the same query from within knitr-app webpage returns: