Git-backed deployment to Posit Connect

• Author: Novica Nakov

Overview

For public hosted repositories on GitHub it is possible to do a git-backed deployment to Posit Connect

The process is described in the official documentation at: Git-Backed Content. Please refer to that link for details.

Additional things to consider

When running the R function rsconnect::writeManifest() captures everything that is needed to deploy a given resource. Therefore if the requirements have changed (for example, the code now depends on an additional package), you need to run the function again in order to generate an updated manifest.json file.

If you push code changes to GitHub, but not push an update manifest.json file the deployed resource will be the same as before i.e. will reflect what it present in the manifest.json file. Depending on the type of changes made that could cause to crash the resource.