Publishing R or Other Content

You can deploy other content that has an existing Posit Connect manifest.json file. For example, if you download and unpack a source bundle from Posit Connect, you can deploy the resulting directory. The options are similar to notebook or API/application deployment; see rsconnect deploy manifest --help for details.

Here is an example of the rsconnect deploy manifest command:

rsconnect deploy manifest /path/to/manifest.json

Note

In this case, the existing content is deployed as-is. Python environment inspection and notebook pre-rendering, if needed, are assumed to be done already and represented in the manifest.

The argument to rsconnect deploy manifest may also be a directory so long as that directory contains a manifest.json file.

Creating a Manifest File

If you have R content but don’t have a manifest.json file, you can use the rsconnect R package to create a manifest. See the help for the rsconnect::writeManifest R function:

install.packages('rsconnect')
library(rsconnect)
?rsconnect::writeManifest

For Quarto content, see also the section on publishing Quarto content from R.