rsconnect

rsconnect makes it easy to publish your Shiny apps, RMarkdown and Quarto documents, and Plumber APIs^* to Posit Connect, Posit Connect Cloud, and shinyapps.io from R.

(If you’re looking for the Python equivalent, try rsconnect-python.)

Installation

You can install the released version of rsconnect from CRAN with:

install.packages("rsconnect")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")

Setup

To use rsconnect, you first need to teach it about the server you want to publish to. If you use the RStudio IDE, the easiest way to get set up is to use the publishing dialog, which you can find by clicking the “Tools” menu, then selecting “Global options”, then clicking “Publishing”. Click “Connect” to add new servers.

You can also connect from any R session by running a little code:

• For Posit Conect Cloud, call connectCloudUser() to authenticate through the browser.

• For Posit Connect, first use addServer() to register your server with rsconnect, then call either connectUser() or connectApiUser(). connectUser() is a bit simpler if you’re in an interactive session; connectApiUser() works anywhere but requires a you to copy and paste an API key from your user profile.

• For shinyapps.io, go to your tokens page and click “Add Token”, then follow the instructions to copy and paste the appropriate call to setAccountInfo(). Learn more in the Getting Started Guide.

Now that you’re setup you can use deployApp(), deployDoc(), and friends to publish your apps, documentations, APIs and more.