render-rmarkdown.yaml

name: Render README

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - README.Rmd

jobs:
  render:
    name: Render README
    runs-on: macOS-latest
    env:
      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1
      - name: Install CRAN packages
        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "rmarkdown", "knitr", "tidyverse"))'
      - name: Install GitHub packages
        run: Rscript -e 'remotes::install_github("hadley/emo")'
      - name: Render README
        run: Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd")'
      - name: Commit results
        run: |
          git config --local user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
          git config --local user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
          git commit README.md -m 'Re-build README.Rmd' || echo "No changes to commit"
          git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"