Build index.html automatically

[cderv]

This is a PR to build on GHA the index page.

For this purpose I introduced the use of renv 📦 . The project has a renv.lock that we are using to install all the required dependencies. This also allows to cache the packages and speed up installation.

Currently the action terminate by committing to the branch. However, I believe this is deployed using netlify, isn't it ?

• How does that work currently ?
• Should we use netlify cli to deploy the website (using SITE_ID secrets) ? In this case we could put all the necessary files in a _site folder and publish this folder ?

Depending on this above, we need to adjust this PR.

This PR does not touch the way it works currently to add a new site i.e adding to _redirects. We could maybe have a YAML to store the website and package name, and the Rmd rendering would write the _redirects file. I'll open an issue to track this.

[apreshill]

Thank you! Does this push to a branch named gha-build?

[cderv]

Yes currently it pushed to this branch. The two commits you are seeing with message Re-build index page are made from the workflow directly.

Plan is to change to master once merged.

[apreshill]

Since we may be using these kinds of GHA (https://github.com/nwtgck/actions-netlify), to do items for me:

• [x] set up NETLIFY_SITE_ID in repo secrets

• [x] set up NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN in repo secrets

[cderv]

I am merging and will fix after if it does not work as expected