nightly-readme-build.yml

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

name: Nightly Knit README.Rmd

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

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

      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2

      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2

      - name: Install README.Rmd dependencies
        run: |
          Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("pak", "rmarkdown", "knitr"))'

      - name: Install the local package
        run: |
          Rscript -e 'pak::local_install(".")'

      - name: Render README.Rmd file
        run: |
          Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render("README.Rmd", output_format = rmarkdown::github_document(html_preview = FALSE))'
      - name: Create pull request
        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
        with:
          commit-message: GH - Render README
          title: GH - Render README
          body: GH action to re-knit the README.Rmd 
          base: main
          labels: ci/cd
          branch: nightly_readme_build
          delete-branch: true