Automatic readme update #16

	# Name of the workflow
	name: render-readme

	# Controls when the action will run. Triggers include:
	#
	# - button trigger from github action page
	# - on changes to readme.Rmd

	on:
	workflow_dispatch:
	push:
	paths:
	- 'README.Rmd'
	- '.github/workflows/render_readme.yml'

	concurrency:
	group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
	cancel-in-progress: true

	# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
	jobs:
	render-readme:
	runs-on: ubuntu-latest
	env:
	GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
	steps:
	- name: Checkout repos
	uses: actions/checkout@v3

	- name: Setup R
	uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
	with:
	use-public-rspm: true

	- name: Setup pandoc
	uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2

	- name: Install dependencies
	uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
	with:
	extra-packages: any::rmarkdown, local::.

	- name: Compile the readme
	run: \|
	tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".Rmd")
	writeLines(
	knitr::knit_expand(
	"README.Rmd",
	packagename = read.dcf("DESCRIPTION", "Package"),
	gh_repo = Sys.getenv("GITHUB_REPOSITORY")
	),
	tf
	)
	rmarkdown::render(tf, output_file = "README.md", output_dir = ".")
	shell: Rscript {0}

	- name: Commit files
	run: \|
	git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
	git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
	git add README.md
	# Also add README figures if they exist
	if [ -d man/figures ]
	then
	git add man/figures/
	fi
	git diff-index --quiet HEAD \|\| git commit -m "Automatic readme update"
	git push origin \|\| echo "No changes to push"

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