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hi @maxheld83 we were told that development of gh actions for R was moved to https://github.com/r-lib/actions/ ? if not what's the difference?
on the actions_sandbox, we were exploring actions, and made an effort to document examples. Please let us know if we can collaborate.
absolutely, that is correct, r-lib/actions is the place to go. I'm still figuring out what to do with this package (ghactions), or whether to deprecate it entirely.
r-lib/actions includes yaml-templates for running GitHub actions.
r-lib/ghactions has a bunch of functions to write such yaml, in the usethis::use_*() style.
I'm actually not sure whether the latter approach still makes sense, since YAML is already supposed to be a human-readable format, and additional R wrappers on top will just include more sources for bugs/confusion. But perhaps they can be helpful.
What's your experience/opinion in this regard @orchid00 – is there a need for an R wrapper around writing GitHub Actions YAML?
hi @maxheld83 in my honestly very short experience with GitHub actions, I will recommend to add any actions that you created via the wrapper into "GH Marketplace" https://github.com/marketplace?type=actions . That way people can find them easily and add R specific actions via the uses tag in the YAML.
For example:
- uses: r-lib/actions/<SOMEACTIONNAME>
thanks for the recommendation; I do have some actions on the marketplace, though the current iteration of this package includes no actions, but just writes out variants of existing actions.
Great! How do we find your actions? @maxheld83
If you are interested, maybe you can add your valuable experience into "Understanding what's going on in the yaml" https://ropenscilabs.github.io/actions_sandbox/understanding-yaml.html My thought is, as long as people understand what is included in the yaml file, they will be more likely to create their own action instructions.