deploySite possibly misleading

[kieranjmartin]

Currently if I want to deploy a static website to rsconnect the best way I have found is using deployApp. If I were to use deploySite(render = "none") which seems to imply that I can deploy just the contents of a directory, I get an error

No _site.yml found in docs.

(note that technically my website is an rmd website, its package documentation, but does not have _site.yml)

This is because my website does not have this file, but deploySite thinks my site is an Rmarkdown site and when it cannot confirm that it errors.

I appreciate that the header of the documentation for the function does say "Deploy an R Markdown or quarto website to a server." but I think it's natural for a user to assume if they want to deploy a static website then the deploySite function would be the natural one. The python cli has an analogous deploy html which supports this. I guess the analogy to that would be deployDoc but that only supports one file at a time.

My suggestion would be to

a) Make it so that deploySite supports non rmd/quarto sites
b) very explicit in documentation that only rmd/quarto is supported
c) make deployDocs which supports arbitrary upload of files.