Can't install xaringan in ubuntu 20.04 within Github Actions

Question

I'm trying to use Github Actions to build a Xaringan presentation. But it seems that it can't find xaringan. Other dependencies are installed correctly, even xaringanthemer (see logs link below) !

I tried to see if there is some missing dependencies but even after fiwing that, xaringan is still missing.

Infos

• Env: Github Actions
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
• R: 4.1.0
• REPO_NAME: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/focal/latest"

Config file: https://github.com/gflowiz/article_foss4g2021/blob/presentation_FOSS4G2021/.github/workflows/render-xaringan.yaml

How to reproduce:

clone repo and trigger build

Ideas of possible fix

Signal to Rstudio and wait for a fix ?

That's strange because Xaringan seems to be present on the repo: https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/repos/1/packages/xaringan

Change repo

Can I change to CRAN instead of packagemanager.rstudio.com ? What's the URL to use ?

Other packages seems to be downloaded from https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib

Answer 1

Your issue came from the spelling: you are using xarigan instead of xaringan in your workflow file at line 48

Therefore, when you try installing the package, you got:

In your last workflow run.

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Here is a workflow run using the correct syntax , but it seems to return another error related to a .gitignore file missing after generating the FOSS4G2021_presentation.html output file:

I'll let you handle it from here (as I've never used these tools before) :D