Shiny app deploy instructions: send the .secrets files & folder

[benmarwick]

This is all fantastic, thank you very much for preparing such a comprehensive resource for organising and running this activity! I'm pitching a reprohack to the UW eScience community for the Winter quarter, and have been studying your materials in preparation for when we set a date.

When I deployed my Shiny app, I found that I didn't have an .httr-oauth file, but I had a .secrets file in my repo. I needed to ensure that got sent to the Shiny server (instead of the .httr-oauth file) to make it all work. Not sure it that's because I'm doing something wrong here, or there are multiple ways that Shiny works?

[annakrystalli]

So sorry for the late reply! For some reason email notification was turned off for me so I've only just seen this! Hope I'm not too late.

So, if I understand correctly, this is a slightly annoying feature of the push-button deployment of shiny in that it doesn't allow you to select hidden files through the gui file upload selector. What I do is I actually deploy the apps programmatically, including the file names I want deployed in the command, eg in your case I would use:

rsconnect::deployApp(appName = "ReproHack_UW_eScience",
               appTitle = "YOUR_EVENT_TITLE",
               account = "YOUR_ACCOUNT", appFiles = c("index.Rmd", ".secrets", "reprohack.css"))