My .env file is not visible when deploying app on shiny server

[tatjana-lebesgue]

I could not deploy my app on shiny server:

• please update to the latest available on CRAN so I updated rsconnect package and now my .env file is not visible: It is no longer among the files I can select

[aronatkins]

Could you tell us more about your project and how you are attempting to deploy?

I just tried the following steps and the .env file was selected when deploying:

# create a new project
usethis::create_project("~/Desktop/using-env")
# within this project, create a skeleton shiny app
# and an .env file.
writeLines(c(
        "shinyApp(ui = fluidPage('having an environment.'), server = function(input, output){})"
    ), "app.R")
writeLines(c(
        "# the .env file"
    ), ".env")

I then used the "publish" icon:

[tatjana-lebesgue]

I am using same way to deploy app on shiny server, selecting files from rstudio and clicking on publish icon:

My ui is dashboardPage with a lot of elements I dont know which details are important. But I know that when I try to deploy using rsconnect version 0.8.29 I can see my .env file (but cant deploy)

[aronatkins]

@tatjana-lebesgue I have somehow managed to get one of my projects into the same state. I'm continuing to dig. I'm not sure the cause nor a workaround at this point.

[aronatkins]

With rsconnect-0.8.29:

> rsconnect::listBundleFiles(getwd())$contents
[1] ".env"  "app.R"

With rsconnect-1.0.2:

> rsconnect::listBundleFiles(getwd())$contents
[1] "app.R"

[aronatkins]

The .env directory is now regarded as a well-known path for Python virtual environments:

https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect/blob/0d052a0f6164e5f2a95a0e9e94c85a804ecf6672/R/bundleFiles.R#L182-L184

This was done in https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect/pull/700

@tatjana-lebesgue - is it possible to rename that .env file, perhaps to .Renviron? Are you using other tools which expect the .env filename?

I'm continuing to see if we can allow .env files again, but in the mean time, using some other name should let you deploy again.

[tatjana-lebesgue]

I did that, and now it's working! I was using the 'dotenv' package and then was expecting the '.env' filename (regards consistency in other projects).

Thank you for the quick response and help @aronatkins :)

[aronatkins]

@tatjana-lebesgue The development version of rsconnect should let you use .env files once again.

remotes::install_github("rstudio/rsconnect")

Please let us know if you encounter any other difficulties.