Error reads: Error in order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing, method = "radix") : Character encoding must be UTF-8, Latin-1 or bytes

[JoaoGarcezAurelio]

Hello, I hope you are well.

When running shinylive::export("app", "site") I get the warning:

Error reads: Error in order(x, na.last = na.last, decreasing = decreasing, method = "radix") : Character encoding must be UTF-8, Latin-1 or bytes

I noticed that, unlike what I reckon should be the output, I am not getting an app.json file, nor an "edit" folder, nor an index.html file. I am only getting the shinylive folder and the shinylive-sw.js file.

A consequence of this seems to be that when I run:

httpuv::runStaticServer("site/")

I get a 404 not found.

I have tried this with two different shiny apps, both being run within a project with renv. One of the apps was a simple histogram and the other app is a set of tables. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

[ugroempi]

I had the very same problem. I figured that it might be due to an Umlaut in the path to the app, and this was indeed the case. After moving the app to a directory the path for which does not have an Umlaut, everything worked as expected. It would of course be nice if shinylive could handle UTF-8 characters in paths :-)
Best, Ulrike