https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/github-actions/ Recent content in Github Actions on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/ tl;dr I’ve (finally) ported the londonmapbot Twitter bot to Mastodon. Like a mammoth rising from the ashes. TOOOOOOOT Twitter is burning to the ground, yada yada. For example, it appears that the free API tier will disappear soon. Soon like… today. Oh wait, maybe not yet?1 Cool customer communication, brah. Anyway, this news will obviously devastate contributors and fans of the mapbotverse Twitter list. You don’t know what the mapbotverse is? https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/ tl;dr Version 1.0 of the {rtweet} package has been released with breaking changes. I’ve updated the R script of londonmapbot so that its scheduled GitHub Action doesn’t fail. New hymn sheet I wrote a Twitter bot a while ago called londonmapbot. See the recent talk at LondonR or the blogpost about its inception. Basically, an R script runs on schedule via a GitHub Action. It generates a random point in Greater London and pulls a corresponding satellite image from MapBox. https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/ tl;dr I spoke at a LondonR hootenanny1 (in-person!) about how to create your own simple Twitter bot powered by GitHub Actions and {rtweet}, just like my @londonmapbot creation. The mapbotverse I created a Twitter bot called @londonmapbot. It uses the {rtweet} package by Mike Kearney to tweet out a random satellite image of Greater London via Mapbox, scheduled and executed by GitHub Actions. I’ve written about this before: https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/14/gha-readme/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/14/gha-readme/ Yesterday’s render of the GitHub README for this blog. tl;dr You can use a scheduled GitHub Action to render up-to-date stats about your blog into its README. Happy blogday This blog has been knocking around for three years now. I wrote a post on its first birthday with a simple, interactive 2D plot of the posts to date. Only now, two years later, have I thought to put this info into the blog’s README on GitHub—along with some other little stats, like total number of posts—and have it update automatically on a schedule using a GitHub Action. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/ tl;dr I made @londonmapbot: a simple Twitter bot that uses the R package {rtweet}, GitHub Actions and the Mapbox API. Find the source on Github. London from (socially-distant) space I’ve wanted to make a Twitter bot for a while, but it seemed like Hard Work. Spoiler: it’s not. So, I’ve made @londonmapbot: a completely unsophisticated proof-of-concept Twitter bot. What does it do? It posts a satellite image from random coordinates in Greater London (well, from a bounding box roughly within the M25 motorway) on schedule. https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/08/09/ghactions-pkgs/ Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/08/09/ghactions-pkgs/ A GitHub Action in action on GitHub. tl;dr You can trigger GitHub Actions to build and test your R package after a push or pull request. Create .github/workflows/ in your repo and add pre-prepared actions by the r-lib team with usethis::use_github_action(). Shortcut I refer back to this post a lot, so here’s some jump-links to the sections with the code I need: Build check Test coverage Build {pkgdown} site Otherwise read on for a more thorough explanation of GitHub Actions in the context of R packages.