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Using Git and GitHub with R

Use GitHub Actions to Run Code Automatically

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on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches: main

name: Quarto Publish

jobs:
  build-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Install R
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2

      - name: Install packages
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
        with:
          packages: |
            any::dplyr
            any::readxl
            any::gt
            
      - name: Check out repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4 

      - name: Set up Quarto
        uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/setup@v2
        
      - name: Render and Publish 
        uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/publish@v2
        with:
          target: netlify
          NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }}

Learn More

I wrote a blog post in 2023 about GitHub Actions.

If you want to learn about publishing Quarto documents to Netlify with GitHub Actions, the Quarto docs has instructions for doing so.

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