Getting started deploying to connect_cloud

[slodge]

I'm working on a charity app that I'm looking to move from shinyapps to connect cloud.

I'm just starting in positron on macos with R 4.5.2 and trying to deploy.

I'm hitting lots of issues at 'the first step' with the deployment. The publisher seems happy with my renv.lock in the extension toolbar, but whenever I try to deploy it complains that it can't find renv.lock - No renv.lock found

I've tried the help pages on https://docs.posit.co/connect-cloud/user/publish/ide.html and https://github.com/posit-dev/publisher/blob/main/docs/configuration.md and https://github.com/posit-dev/publisher/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md but couldn't see anything specific to this situation.

If it helps: version of renv is 1.1.15, version of rsconnect is 1.6.2

Any suggestions/ideas for how to investigate/resolve this?

[slodge]

I tried a simpler app - in a new folder based on https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples/tree/main/083-front-page

This one also reports renv.lock not found, but then proceeds to find it anyway... it gets a bit further - it fails at R4.5.2 (I can try to work around that I guess...)

The previous app also now just started deploying if I uncheck my .REnviron file ... but it deployed without any R dependencies so no way it would run.

I'm wondering is there some extra logging (e.g. extra manifest.json output) that I can add from the UI?

[mslynch]

Regarding the issue with R 4.5.2, there's a server-side update we need to make for Publisher to be able to use it - that should be coming very soon.

There is extra logging available in the Posit Publisher Deployment section of the output panel, which can often be helpful if the messages in the UI aren't giving you enough:

[slodge]

Thanks. Have added that info in #3329

[slodge]

As a follow up to this... the deployment just started working after a positron update when I tried it in early January... No idea what changed, but thanks and good job 👍

[dotNomad]

Really glad that our work on deploying with an renv environment helped you out here. 🙇

[slodge]

(Feature request) It would also be nice if the deployment logs were separated between deployments or if there were some obvious way to clear this deployment log window:

[mslynch]

Absolutely. We have an open bug filed for that here: #3069

[slodge]

In a large deployment (one with a lot of package builds) I'm seeing a blank publisher output and some "set maximum size exceeded" errors like this:

I'm not sure of the exact way to reproduce this. Do you want me to log it as an issue even though I can't provide a repro for it?

[dotNomad]

Do you want me to log it as an issue even though I can't provide a repro for it

That would be very helpful, thank you!

[slodge]

Done - #3436