The workflow defined in .github/workflow/main.yml uses this markdown template to create an up to date time series chart of the KOF Barometer. The KOF Swiss Economic Insitute updates its forward looking indicator on a monthly basis. This markdown documents queries the kofdata API and renders a chart using the tsbox package.
The render process itself is executed via GitHub Actions on a docker (rocker/verse) tidyverse container with a few custom tweaks (basically installation of the above packages). We stop short of creating HTML documents as GitHub renders markdown by default. Hence we just render RMarkdown to standard markdown.
library(kofdata)
library(tsbox)
tsl <- get_time_series("ch.kof.barometer")
ts_plot(tsl$ch.kof.barometer)
cat(sprintf("last update on %s.", as.character(Sys.Date())))## last update on 2024-11-22.