Restoring a local package for bookdown workflow

[dchiu911]

Is it possible to pass RENV_PATHS_LOCAL to the r-lib/actions/examples/bookdown.yml workflow so that I can restore a local package when trying to reproduce the report using github actions?

Otherwise I am hitting this error because my .Renviron with the RENV_PATHS_LOCAL field is not being passed:

Error: Error: failed to retrieve package 'localPackage'

[gaborcsardi]

You can set environment variables for all steps or for a single step of an action, here is an example:

actions/examples/check-full.yaml

Lines 39 to 41 in 6f4c414

	env:
	GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
	R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes

See the GitHub Actions documentation for details.

[dchiu911]

Thanks @gaborcsardi I've tried the following configs and each time I get the same error

    env:
      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      RENV_PATHS_LOCAL: ~/Packages

      - name: renv local
        shell: bash
        run: |
          echo "RENV_PATHS_LOCAL=~/Packages" >> $GITHUB_ENV

[gaborcsardi]

Make sure you set the env var globally, if you set it in one step, it will not be available in other steps. Make sure that it is set correctly, just by printing it out. Otherwise if it is set correctly and this is the env var you are supposed to set, I am not sure what is wrong, but you can ask renv related questions at https://community.rstudio.com/tag/renv Make sure you use the renv tag.

[dchiu911]

Pretty sure I set them globally:

jobs:
  bookdown:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      RENV_PATHS_LOCAL: ~/Packages
    steps:

I'll ask in Community