My Shinydashboard App is not deploying : Bundle does not contain manifest file - shiny

Question

I'm new to RShiny and I decided to create my first App.
When I lauch my app with this command it executes right away and everything is fine.
shinyApp(ui, server)
But when I'm trying to deploy my app to the Shinyapps.io servers I have this error
Error: Unhandled Exception: Child Task 547685425 failed: Error parsing
manifest: Bundle does not contain manifest file: data/données.xlsx
It looks like Shiny can't find my document données.xlsx which is where I'm reading data for my apps but the first thing I do in my code is setting my directory.
Here is my Code :
setwd("C:/Users/Baillargeon/Desktop/R_PROG/RShiny_test")
library(shiny)
library(shinydashboard)
library(DT)
library(rsconnect)
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
library(dplyr)
library(xlsx)
donnees <- read.xlsx("data/données.xlsx", sheetName = "donnees", encoding = "UTF-8")
[...]
ui <- dashboardPage(
dashboardHeader(title = "Employés"),
dashboardSidebar(
sidebarMenu(
menuItem("Jeu de données",tabName="Donnees",icon=icon("database")),
menuItem("Graphiques",tabName="graph",icon=icon('signal'))
)
),
dashboardBody(
tabItems(
tabItem(tabName="Donnees",
h2("Données"),
DT::dataTableOutput("donnees")
),
tabItem(tabName = "graph", h2("Graphiques"),
fluidRow(
box(plotlyOutput("plot_sites")),
box(plotlyOutput("plot_sexe"))
)
)
)
)
)
server <- function(input,output){
output$donnees = DT::renderDataTable({
donnees
})
output$plot_sites <- renderPlotly({
plot_ly(final_sites, labels= final_sites$Site, values= final_sites$Freq, type="pie",
textposition = 'inside',
textinfo = 'label+percent',
showlegend = FALSE
) %>%
layout(title="Répartition des employés selon l'arondissement")
})
output$plot_sexe <- renderPlotly({
plot_ly(final_sexe, labels= final_sexe$Sexe, values= final_sexe$Freq, type="pie",
textposition = 'inside',
textinfo = 'label+percent',
showlegend = FALSE
) %>%
layout(title="Répartition des employés selon leurs Sexe")
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
rsconnect::deployApp("C:/Users/Baillargeon/Desktop/R_PROG/RShiny_test")
Does anyone know how to solve this error ?
Thanks

Answer 1

remove setwd("C:/Users/Baillargeon/Desktop/R_PROG/RShiny_test") as first line.
When you are deploying on shinyapps.io , it is a linux environment. so C:/ makes no sense.
Moreover, by default your working directory is where your ui.R and server.R are located. So, your data folder path should be relevant to that. Which looks like so from your code.
read documentation 9.4 “Disconnected from server” messages
Hope it helps