Making Awesome Automations with GitHub Actions
summary
Shows how to run arbitrary R scripts on GitHub runners to scrape government data, render reports with R Markdown or Quarto, send emails, and build/package checks using r-lib/actions and usethis. Demonstrates a workflow with workflow_dispatch button plus scheduled runs, using Ubuntu (or macOS/Windows) runners, installing R via setup-r, and explicitly installing all R packages to avoid breaks. Claims Actions runs for RStudio/Posit repos grow more than fourfold in two years.
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