I'm dreaming of a (hosted) RStudio CI/CD

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For people who are still interested in a more streamlined CI/CD experience, the new GitHub actions may be interesting.
It's all build on docker containers, and as such allows you develop in the same container that you're also using for CI/CD.
(I guess this was technically possible with Travis as well, though not as flexible).

In my experience, this has simplified my CI/CD workflow greatly.

I've developed some custom R actions for GitHub actions, and an accompanying ghactions package:

GitHub actions for R

Announcement is here:

GitHub Actions for R: Introducing the ghactions package

GitHub actions are a new workflow automation feature of the popular code repository host GitHub. The product is currently in limited beta . Among many other things, it allows you to run (pretty much arbitrary) Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows. Sort of like TravisCI, but arguably way more flexible. I got into the limited beta while back and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. I think it's pretty amazing, and it may have some potential for R users. A gif says is best: [pkgwf] (This is a complete package build/check/doc/deploy workflow). To benefit from all the inherent flexibility, GitHub actions is arguably best used via GitHub's own visual edit…