[BUG] can't deploy on posit Connect with {rsconnect} >=1.0.1 (from {packrat} to {renv})

[VincentGuyader]

The new version of {rsconnect} (version 1.0.1) appears to use {renv} instead of {packrat} for deploying on Connect (an shinyapps.io ?). This seems promising, but currently, it is not compatible with the approach used by {golem} to deploy the Shiny application.

The error message is as follows:

[2023-07-25 08:07:11.268878] Generate manifest.json
ℹ Bundling 17 files: '.here', '.Rbuildignore', 'app.R', 'DESCRIPTION', 'dev/01_start.R', 'dev/02_dev.R', 'dev/03_deploy.R', 'dev/run_dev.R', 'inst/app/www/favicon.ico', 'inst/golem-config.yml', 'man/run_app.Rd', 'NAMESPACE', 'R/_disable_autoload.R', 'R/app_config.R', 'R/app_server.R', 'R/app_ui.R', and 'R/run_app.R'
ℹ Capturing R dependencies with renv
- Operation canceled.
Execution halted

The solution is to pass this parameter

options(rsconnect.packrat = TRUE)

and use the following command

rsconnect::deployApp()

. For now, it is not possible to use the blue deployment button (unless the 'options' parameter is set to a very low level in the Rstudio configuration).

We are working on improving this behavior

[VincentGuyader]

I made some test. with rsconnect 1.0.1 and 1.0.1.900 (from github), and renv > 1.0.0

TL;DR

option 1 :

golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
options(rsconnect.packrat = TRUE)
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1

option 2 :

options(rsconnect.packrat = FALSE)
# remotes::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")#rsconnect 1.0.1.9000
golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
attachment::create_renv_for_prod(output = "renv.lock")
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1.9000

# TEST 1

golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1
# Capturing R dependencies with renv
# What do you want to do?
#
#   1: Snapshot, just using the currently installed packages.
# 2: Install the packages, then snapshot.
# 3: Cancel, and resolve the situation on your own.
# Selection: 1
# ✔ Found 104 dependencies
# Error in `createAppManifest()`:
#   ! All packages must be installed from a reproducible location.
# ✖ Can't re-install packages installed from source: Rcpp, cpp11, digest, downlit, fs, jsonlite, openssl, pkgload,
#   processx, remotes, renv, rmarkdown, rsconnect, rstudioapi, sass, shiny, testthat, usethis, and xml2.
# ℹ See `rsconnect::appDependencies()` for more details.
# Run `rlang::last_trace()` to see where the error occurred.


rsconnect::deployApp()
# ── Preparing for deployment ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# ✔ Re-deploying "effacemoi1" to "server: connect / username: vincent"
# ℹ Looking up application with id "592"...
# ✔ Found application <https://connect.thinkr.fr/content/bf0eb602-ca10-48da-8b01-4dbeccdf8713/>
#   ℹ Bundling 17 files: .here, .Rbuildignore, app.R, DESCRIPTION, dev/01_start.R, dev/02_dev.R, dev/03_deploy.R, dev/run_dev.R, inst/app/www/favicon.ico, inst/golem-config.yml, man/run_app.Rd, NAMESPACE, R/_disable_autoload.R, R/app_config.R, R/app_server.R, R/app_ui.R, and R/run_app.R
# ℹ Capturing R dependencies with renv
# What do you want to do?
#
#   1: Snapshot, just using the currently installed packages.
# 2: Install the packages, then snapshot.
# 3: Cancel, and resolve the situation on your own.
#
# Selection: 2
# Error: package 'effacemoi1' is not available

# TEST 2
golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
attachment::create_renv_for_prod(output = "renv.lock")
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1

# SAME as TEST 1

# TEST 3
golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
options(rsconnect.packrat = TRUE)
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1

# OK.

# TEST 4
options(rsconnect.packrat = FALSE)
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")
golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
attachment::create_renv_for_prod(output = "renv.lock")
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1.9000

# OK

# TEST 5
options(rsconnect.packrat = FALSE)
# devtools::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")
golem::add_rstudioconnect_file()
unlink("renv.lock")
# attachment::create_renv_for_prod(output = "renv.lock")
rsconnect::deployApp() #rsconnect 1.0.1.9000

# Ok but seem to use packrat ??

# R.home(): /opt/R/4.3.1/lib/R
# Using user agent string: 'RStudio R (4.3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu x86_64 linux-gnu)'
# # Validating R library read / write permissions --------------------------------
# Using R library for packrat bootstrap: /opt/rstudio-connect/mnt/R/4.3.1
# # Validating managed packrat installation --------------------------------------
# Vendored packrat archive: /opt/rstudio-connect/ext/R/packrat_0.9.0_e618feb05b78828b1cafebe8f8fb411d51a7b495.tar.gz
# Vendored packrat SHA: e618feb05b78828b1cafebe8f8fb411d51a7b495

[VincentGuyader]

cant reproduce now with current {rsconnect} + {revn} versions.

we can close