Move rsconnect to Suggest to reduce the number to dependencies

.Rbuildignore

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 ^docs$
 ^pkgdown$
 ^\.github$
+^\.vscode$

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 .Rproj.user
 .Rhistory
 
+.vscode
+
 inst/doc
 docs

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Package: quarto
 Title: R Interface to 'Quarto' Markdown Publishing System
-Version: 1.3.4
+Version: 1.3.5
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "jj@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0174-9868")),
-    person("Christophe", "Dervieux", , "cderv@posit.co", role = c("aut"),
+    person("Christophe", "Dervieux", , "cderv@posit.co", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4474-2498"))
   )
 Description: Convert R Markdown documents and 'Jupyter' notebooks to a
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ Imports:
     processx,
     rlang,
     rmarkdown,
-    rsconnect (>= 0.8.26),
     rstudioapi,
     utils,
     yaml
 Suggests: 
+    curl,
     knitr,
+    rsconnect (>= 0.8.26),
     testthat (>= 3.1.0),
     withr,
     xfun

NEWS.md

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 # quarto (development version)
 
-* Add `quarto_add_extension()` and `quarto_use_template()` to deal with Quarto extensions for a Quarto project. (thanks, @mcanouil, #45, @remlapmot, #42).
+- **rsconnect** R package dependency has been moved to Suggest to reduce this package's overall number of dependencies. **rsconnect** package is only required for publishing using `quarto_publish_*()` functions. If not installed, users will be prompted to install (when in interactive mode).
 
-* Add `profile` arguments to `quarto_render()` and `quarto_inspect()` (thanks, #95, @andrewheiss, #123, @salim-b).
+- Add `quarto_add_extension()` and `quarto_use_template()` to deal with Quarto extensions for a Quarto project. (thanks, @mcanouil, #45, @remlapmot, #42).
 
-* Add `metadata` and `metadata_file` to `quarto_render()` to pass modify Quarto metadata from calling render. If both are set, `metadata` will be merged over `metadata_file` content. Internally, metadata will be passed as a `--metadata-file` to `quarto render` (thanks, @mcanouil, #52, @maelle, #49).
+- Add `profile` arguments to `quarto_render()` and `quarto_inspect()` (thanks, #95, @andrewheiss, #123, @salim-b).
 
-* Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.
+- Add `metadata` and `metadata_file` to `quarto_render()` to pass modify Quarto metadata from calling render. If both are set, `metadata` will be merged over `metadata_file` content. Internally, metadata will be passed as a `--metadata-file` to `quarto render` (thanks, @mcanouil, #52, @maelle, #49).
 
-* `execute_params` in `quarto_render()` now converts boolean value to `true/false` correctly as expected by `quarto render` (thanks, @marianklose, #124).
+- Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.
+
+- `execute_params` in `quarto_render()` now converts boolean value to `true/false` correctly as expected by `quarto render` (thanks, @marianklose, #124).

R/publish.R

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ quarto_publish_doc <- function(input,
                                render = c("local", "server", "none"),
                                metadata = list(),
                                ...) {
+
+  validate_rsconnect()
   # resolve render
   render <- match.arg(render)
 
@@ -144,6 +146,9 @@ quarto_publish_app <- function(input = getwd(),
                                render = c("local", "server", "none"),
                                metadata = list(),
                                ...) {
+
+  validate_rsconnect()
+
   # resolve render
   render <- match.arg(render)
 
@@ -196,6 +201,8 @@ quarto_publish_site <- function(input = getwd(),
                                 metadata = list(),
                                 ...) {
 
+  validate_rsconnect()
+
   # resolve render
   render <- match.arg(render)
 
@@ -286,6 +293,7 @@ is_shiny_prerendered <- function(runtime, server = NULL) {
 
 
 rpubs_publish_destination <- function(doc, server) {
+  validate_rsconnect()
   if (identical(server, "rpubs.com")) {
     deployments <- rsconnect::deployments(doc, serverFilter = "rpubs.com")
     if (nrow(deployments) > 0) {
@@ -305,7 +313,6 @@ rpubs_publish_destination <- function(doc, server) {
 
 resolve_destination <- function(server, account, allowShinyapps) {
 
-  # validate we have the right version of rsconnect
   validate_rsconnect()
 
   # check for  accounts
@@ -380,20 +387,9 @@ resolve_destination <- function(server, account, allowShinyapps) {
 }
 
 
-validate_rsconnect <- function() {
+validate_rsconnect <- function(reason = "for publishing using quarto R package.") {
 
-  # confirm that we have rsconnect
-  if (!requireNamespace("rsconnect", quietly = FALSE)) {
-    stop("The rsconnect package is required for publishing. ",
-         "Please install rsconnect with:\n  remotes::install_github(\"rstudio/rsconnect\")")
-  }
-
-  # confirm we have a recent enough version
-  rsc_version <- "0.8.24"
-  if (utils::packageVersion("rsconnect") < rsc_version) {
-    stop("Version ", rsc_version, " or greater of the rsconnect package is required ",
-         "for publishing. Please install with:\n  remotes::install_github(\"rstudio/rsconnect\")")
-  }
+  rlang::check_installed("rsconnect", version = "0.8.26", reason = reason)
 }
 
 quarto_rsc_metadata <- function(inspect) {