Making awesome automations with GitHub Actions

rstudio::conf(2022)

• Event: rstudio::conf(2022)

• Talk video

• Slides

Complementary materials

• Blog post: How important is GitHub Actions to RStudio/Posit? Code for a plot in my talk!

• Blog post: Introduction to GitHub Actions to R users

• Blog post: Monitoring quarto-dev repositories: Creating a workflow with GitHub Actions for R users

• GitHub repository: awesome-gha - Awesome GitHub Actions for R

• Public workflow examples:

  • sigbm - This repository has a workflow that downloads the excel file with public data related to mining dams in Brazil, every day, and stores it in the repository. There is no R code!

  • noticiasgov - This repository has a workflow that scrapes news from the official government of Sao Paulo page, and stores it in a CSV file.

Slides

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