Installation of system dependencies failing after running use_github_actions_tidy

[Robinlovelace]

I read with great interest about GitHub actions in these (awesome comic themed!) slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jimhester/github-actions-for-r?slide=40

Following the instructions I tried:

use_github_actions_tidy()

For the package stplanr.

Good news: the outpute seems to have got the actions going.

Issue, the system requirements seem to fail on all platforms except for Windows: https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr/runs/420731417 (screenshot below)

I had a look at R-CMD-check.yml and guess that there is an underlying issue with the pkgdepends sysreqs package. Happy to open an issue there, but seeing as I first found this issue while using this package, and imagining that others may have similar issues, opening here as a starting point.

On a related note, wondering if there's a way to use RStudio's r-system-requirements project to support automated package dependencies for things like GDAL, on which stplanr depends, which is mentioned in the README here: https://github.com/rstudio/r-system-requirements

Thanks.

[Robinlovelace]

Update, have just tried re-running the command after installing dev version and the resulting yaml files seem unchanged.

[jennybc]

cc @jimhester

I'm going to close this because all usethis does is write files. I think this is an issue for https://github.com/r-lib/actions or https://github.com/r-hub/sysreqs.

FWIW I setup gh actions for googlesheets4 yesterday. I believe the sysreqs only works for Linux? For my macOS builds I had to add brew install this-and-that commands to install system requirements. For all but the simplest package, it is quite likely that the base workflow YAML is going to need customization.

[Robinlovelace]

Great, thanks for the pointers. Hope this issue, and your response, is useful to others.

[Robinlovelace]

Heads-up @jennybc and @jimhester, good news: my colleague @layik fixed the issue with this commit: ropensci/stplanr@ad6b952

I'm unsure why the dependencies do not install as per r-hub/sysreqs#14 but happy that it's fixed and hope that others find this issue and the contents of the fix useful.