
- #CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB HOW TO#
- #CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB INSTALL#
- #CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB CODE#
#CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB HOW TO#
See the documentation to know how to format your schedule. Hence, I use cron to run GitHub Actions every Monday at 00:00. Actually, for my list of JavaScript libraries to be up-to-date, I also need to scrape the htmlwidgets gallery once in a while. yaml file I use on my repo, but I lied a bit. Now, every time I change the CSV file on the master branch, the README will be automatically rendered (after a few minutes, since all the actions have to run first). Hence, the last step is to commit the changes with a message and to push them on the master branch. Last but not least, GitHub Actions rendered the README, but the changes are not on the repo yet.
#CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB INSTALL#
There are some parts that I just copied and pasted from the R actions repository, but basically you can see that first it initiates R and pandoc ( Then, I run an R script to install the rmarkdown package and I use it to render the Rmd file to create README.md. The name of this process is “Render README”. The jobs run every time there’s a push on the master branch The first two parts are quite self-explanatory:

On : push : branches : master name : Render README jobs : render : name : Render README runs-on : macOS-latest steps : - uses : - uses : - uses : - name : Install rmarkdown run : Rscript -e 'install.packages("rmarkdown")' - name : Render README run : Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd", output_format = "md_document")' - name : Commit results run : | git commit README.md -m 'Re-build README.Rmd' || echo "No changes to commit" git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"
#CURRENT VERSION OF RMARKDOWN GITHUB CODE#
yml file that contains the R code you want to run to render the README. This is where GitHub Actions comes into play. Without GitHub Actions, in addition to modify the CSV file, I would have to clone the repo, open it in RStudio, render the README, and push it back on GitHub.īut this task is repetitive: apart from the details I add to the CSV file, it can be automated. The problem is that this CSV file is then used into an R Markdown file, that creates a clean README with all the information. The idea is that when I (or someone else) find a JavaScript library that has been adapted into an R package, I add it to a CSV file on GitHub.


I wanted this list to be easy to update, so that it can be done on GitHub directly. One of my GitHub repos is a list of JavaScript libraries that have been adapted in R. In this post, I will present you two cases in which I use GitHub Actions to automatically do that. Sometimes, it is useful to automatically render an R Markdown document or a website, made with distill for example.
