Introduction

Automating the execution, testing and deployment of R code is a powerful tool to ensure the reproducibility, quality and overall robustness of the code that we are building. A relatively recent feature in GitHub - GitHub actions - allows us to do just that without using additional tools such as Travis or Jenkins for our repositories stored on GitHub.

In this post, we will examine using GitHub actions and Docker to test our R packages across platforms in a portable way and show how this setup works for …