Child Task 840897391 failed: Error parsing manifest: Manifest file count (6742) greater than maximum allowed (6000)

Question

I am redploying an updated Shiny app after adding some more data. I get the error "Child Task 840897391 failed: Error parsing manifest: Manifest file count (6742) greater than maximum allowed (6000)".

I did the following

• deleted rsconnect and deployed as a new Shiny app. Yet I get the same error.

How can I overcome this error?

Answer 1

In case your application has a python virtual environment:

I took several hours to try deploying with virtualenv, cleaning unused packages, etc. However, it seems complicated to deploy a large number of files in a limited cloud (for the free plan in shiny app). I had this same error and what that could save my deploy was this workaround

• write this in app.R (remember that these packages are just an example, edit for your own app - except for numpy, it is needed)

  reticulate::virtualenv_create("python35_env", python = "python3")
  reticulate::virtualenv_install("python35_env", packages = c("pandas", "requests", "numpy", "elasticsearch", "elasticsearch_dsl", "requests_aws4auth"))
  reticulate::use_virtualenv("python35_env", required = TRUE)
  reticulate::source_python("getdatafunction.py")
  

• and write this in .Rprofile:

    # .RProfile
    Sys.setenv(RETICULATE_PYTHON = "~/.virtualenvs/python35_env/bin/python")