GitHub Actions

Continuous integration (CI)

This repo used to use Travis CI but now uses GitHub Actions.

Github Actions

GitHub actions can be used to accomplish many tasks in a repository but here we use it to build and deploy the Technical Documentation Bookdown. The action compiles the book and builds the HTML version.

Tech doc uses GitHub action to automatically update the technical documentation when a change is pushed to Github.

How is the action setup?

The bookdown.yml configures the virtual machine that the document is built on. The virtual machine is set up using an Ubuntu system using R as the programming language.

More resources

• How to publish bookdown projects with GitHub Actions on GitHub Pages
• bookdown_github_actions_netlify
• rstudio/bookdown example yaml