Access file outside project directory after publishing dashboard to RSConnect

Question

I have a Shiny dashboard and it is published to RSConnect. But some of my files are outside the project directory and the paths are referring to that files, also I am loading packages from a folder outside the project directory.So the dashboard is not loading in RSConnect. Is there any way to publish the dashboard to RSConnect with files outside the project directory? It would we great if someone could help on the same.