render-readme.yaml

# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/master/examples
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on: [push]

name: render-rmarkdown

jobs:
  render-rmarkdown:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1

      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1

      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-renv@v1
      - name: Install rmarkdown
        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages("rmarkdown")'

      - name: Render Rmarkdown files
        run: |
          RMD_PATH=($(git diff --name-only ${{ github.event.before }} ${{ github.sha }} | grep '[.]Rmd$'))
          Rscript -e 'for (f in commandArgs(TRUE)) if (file.exists(f)) rmarkdown::render(f)' ${RMD_PATH[*]}

      - name: Commit results
        run: |
          git config --local user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
          git config --local user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
          git commit ${RMD_PATH[*]/.Rmd/.md} -m 'Re-build Rmarkdown files' || echo "No changes to commit"
          git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"