Run an R script once a day

example.yaml

on:
  schedule:
    # Run every day at 19:00
    - cron: "0 19 * * *"

jobs:
    generate-data:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    env:
      # Put any environment variables the script needs here
      # See https://github.com/Azure/actions-workflow-samples/blob/master/assets/create-secrets-for-GitHub-workflows.md
      TWITTER_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
        with:
          r-version: release

      - name: Query dependencies
        run: |
          install.packages('remotes')
          install.packages('sessioninfo')
          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
          writeLines(sprintf("R-%i.%i", getRversion()$major, getRversion()$minor), ".github/R-version")
        shell: Rscript {0}

      - name: Cache R packages
        uses: actions/cache@v1
        with:
          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
        shell: Rscript {0}
          
      - name: Generate graph
        run: |
          source("R/script.R")
        shell: Rscript {0}