The application failed to start. exit status 1 - App fails at loading .rda file

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I have a shiny app that works fine when run locally. The app predicts a value using the user inputs and a linear model. The linear model was estimated beforehand- i.e., the app does not estimate the linear model it only predicts.

Here a reproducible example

#load data
data(mtcars)

#Estimate linear model
lm_t<-lm(hp~as.factor(cyl),data = mtcars)

#Save lm object as .rda
save(lm_t, file="mod.rda")

Use saved model in shiny app


    library(shiny)
# Global

# Load preestimated linear model
load("mod.rda")


# Define UI ----
ui <- fluidPage(

  sidebarLayout(

    sidebarPanel(
       
 # User input - number of months
selectInput("cyl",h4("Número de meses desde el lanzamiento del proyecto"), choices = c(4,6,8))

),

    mainPanel(

      #Display user input value
      tableOutput("TBL1"),

      #Display user prediction  
      textOutput("pred")
    )
 )
)
# Define server logic ----
server <- function(input, output) {

  # Data frame for storing input values
  dfs<-reactive({ 
    dfp<-data.frame("Periodo" = input$cyl)
                 })

  # Display input values
  output$TBL1 <- renderTable({dfs()})

# Predict using linear model  
pr<-reactive({
  round(predict(lm_t,newdata = dfs()),3)
                           })

  # Display prediction
  output$pred<-renderText({paste("Se espera un incremento en el precio de:",pr(),"%")})
}

# Run the application 
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

The problem is that once deployed in shiny.io the app doesn't work. Error message: “The application failed to start. exit status 1”.

Looking into the logs it appears the problem is that the shiny can't find the mod.rda. I am 100% sure that I uploaded the mod.rda file when I deployed the app.

Any help in making the app work will be much appreciated.