Deploying to Posit Connect with a local source package

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Is there any way to deploy content to Posit Connect that uses a package installed from source locally? In this case it's a shiny app and I'm using renv for environment management. I have tried

  1. Putting the tarball in the project directory and installing it with renv::install("path_to.tar.gz"). In this case I get:
    ! All packages must be installed from a reproducible location.
    ✖ Can't re-install packages installed from source: square.
  2. Putting the tarball in renv/cellar and including that in the appFiles argument to rsconnect::deployApp(). But then when I try to deploy the app it looks for the package on Posit Package Manager, doesn't find it, and then the deployment fails.

I have seen another post with a similar question from a few months ago, but it's not clear from that exchange whether using a local package is possible, or whether the answer is basically "put that package somewhere else".

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The post that you linked really does cover the options, and as you said, it more or less comes down to "put that package somewhere [that Connect can access]". There are some more details and explanations in the docs here: https://docs.posit.co/connect/user/publishing-packages.