render-site.yml

# It was adapted by Candace Savonen for the OTTR_template https://github.com/jhudsl/OTTR_Template.

# This code was adapted by Carrie Wright to enable automated rendering of the site associated with this repository

name: Render html

# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push
# events only for the master branch
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
    paths:
      - '**.Rmd'
      - styles.css
      - _site.yml
      - subdir_html/*.Rmd
      - resources/images/*.png
      - resources/images/favicon.ico
      - site_libs/*

jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build-all"
  render-main:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
          # install.packages("remotes") # in case we decide not to go with the container...
          # remotes::install_cran("rmarkdown")
          # remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
    container:
      image: jhudsl/course_template
    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          # get the full repo
          fetch-depth: 0
          # use github PAT
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}

      # We want a fresh run of the renders each time - so first delete old html files
      - name: Delete old *.html
        run: Rscript -e "rmarkdown::clean_site(preview = FALSE)"

       # Now we want to render all the html files from the Rmd files
      - name: Run render html
        id: site
        run: Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render_site()"

      # This checks on the steps before it and makes sure that they completed.
      # If the renders didn't complete we don't want to commit the file changes
      - name: Check on render steps
        if: steps.site.outcome != 'success'
        run: |
          echo site status ${{steps.site.outcome}}
          exit 1

# Commit the rendered site files - html files and site_libs files
      - name: Commit rendered site files
        run: |
          git config --local user.email "actions@github.com"
          git config --local user.name "GitHub Actions"
          git add --force *.html
          git add --force site_libs/*
          git commit -m 'Render site' || echo "No changes to commit"
          git push origin main || echo "No changes to push"