Integrate Posit Connect with Posit Cloud

Posit Cloud is a product geared towards bringing data science to everyone. A core feature of Posit Cloud is the ability to create projects as-needed with the ability to publish content to Posit Connect. For more information, see the Posit Cloud Documentation.

If your users are using Posit Cloud to publish content to Posit Connect, there are some caveats that you should be aware of:

• Posit Cloud uses a package proxy replacement for CRAN, which shows up in the packrat.lock and manifest.json files as http://package-proxy
• Posit Cloud supports a fallback repository for its packages which is listed as RSPM in the repos R option and points to a CRAN mirror.
• When deployments from Posit Cloud rebuild on Connect, users may see a message saying that it couldn’t contact http://package-proxy before successfully building.

Rewriting package-proxy repository definitions

To prevent the package-proxy message from appearing in user deployments, override CRAN using the RPackageRepository configuration heading.

[RPackageRepository "CRAN"]
URL = https://cran.rstudio.com

For more information, see the r-package-repositories section.

Making all Posit Cloud deployments restore from Posit Package Manager

Because Posit Cloud uses two repository settings to achieve its fallback behavior, you need to override both of them using the RPackageRepository configuration heading.

[RPackageRepository "CRAN"]
URL = https://my.package.manager.instance

[RPackageRepository "RSPM"]
URL = https://my.package.manager.instance

Replace https://my.package.manager.instance with the instance of Posit Package Manager you prefer that packages restore from.