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:bar_chart: Methods of Applied Statistics Course Textbook Repository

https://book.stat420.org/

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Switch over to GH Actions runner #99

Closed coatless closed 3 years ago

coatless commented 3 years ago

Some steps to be taken:

Disabling .travis.yaml by deleting it
Remove deployment/ folder
Add .github/workflows/bookdown.yaml

Notes:

We'll use a slightly modified bookdown action to avoid reliance on Netlify.
The main website will remain "active", but until the runner builds will not automatically update.
It may be advantageous in non-peak hours to rebuild the gh-pages branch as it contains old artifacts.

coatless commented 3 years ago

Disabled .travis.yaml in: 60f8eb1055495f6c60f58f4725fe7f4ede556587

Added GitHub action in: 28681957321d54b0ebdb054aaec342c025442e56

Moving to test deployments in a PR structure since the runner should now be picked up in the PR.

coatless commented 3 years ago

Okay, we didn't use a branch... Few commit notes:

Switched from install pandoc with brew to using the r-lib/actions recipe: 308f2eb9b8d7dce515759db1d9e0232529ae4e0c

Next, we battled to add xquartz to enable {plot3D} r package by using brew install xquartz --cask in:

233794b45dc54117ee02b78f1347334fcd4aab3a and f329cb258ddc75482f52ba57993eff89cf0e5aaf

Note, we now have a working textbook!

coatless commented 3 years ago

Lastly, we're using the main/master instead of keyed versions of the installation recipes. So, if any of these stages fail, we'll probably either need to wait or key to the latest versions. (I'm going the main route since R 4.1 was just released last week.)

https://github.com/daviddalpiaz/appliedstats/blob/f329cb258ddc75482f52ba57993eff89cf0e5aaf/.github/workflows/bookdown.yaml#L18-L26

daviddalpiaz commented 3 years ago

Perfect, thanks! Gonna give it a quick test in a second.

daviddalpiaz commented 3 years ago

Wow. Works flawlessly. Now I'll have to go try the migration on some other repos by myself.