render-readme.yaml

# For help visit following page:
# https://fromthebottomoftheheap.net/2020/04/30/rendering-your-readme-with-github-actions/
name: render readme

# Controls when the action will run
on:
  push:
    branches: master

jobs:
  render:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: macOS-latest
    
    steps:
    # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1
      
      # Install packages needed
      - name: install required packages
        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("devtools", "knitr", "rmarkdown"), dependencies = TRUE)'
      
      # Install packages needed from GitHub
      - name: install from GitHub
        run: Rscript -e 'remotes::install_github("kamapu/yamlme", dependencies = TRUE)'
        env:
          GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      
      # Render README.md using rmarkdown
      - name: render README
        run: Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd")'
      
      - name: commit rendered README
        run: |
          git commit README.md -m 'Re-build README.Rmd' || echo "No changes to commit"
          git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"