Use R version from renv.lock in Rhino app CI

[kamilzyla]

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[vibalre]

The R version in renv.lock should be the same as the R_VERSION specified in rhino-test.yml.

For example, .github/workflows/rhino-test.yml can be configured as

name: Rhino Test
on: push
jobs:
  main:
    name: Run linters and tests
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    env:
      R_VERSION: '4.1.0'

But renv.lock can be configured as

"R": {
    "Version": "4.1.1",
    "Repositories": [
      {
        "Name": "RSPM",
        "URL": "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/latest"
      }
    ]
  }

We want the rhino-test.yml to use R_VERSION: '4.1.1'.

[vibalre]

@kamilzyla I am stuck with #77, so I tried this one.

Solution

I removed the env definition of R_VERSION and added this step.

- name: Extract R.version from renv.lock
        run: |
          r_version=`jq .R.Version renv.lock | xargs`
          echo "R_VERSION=$r_version" >> $GITHUB_ENV

Tests

Here are the tests I did with rhino-showcase:

• R 4.1.1 without GITHUB_PAT
• R 4.2.1 without GITHUB_PAT
• R 4.2.1 with GITHUB_PAT

I forgot to keep GITHUB_PAT when I removed R_VERSION from env. For some reason, Cypress fails in R 4.2.1.

Please check if these results are ok.

[kamilzyla]

Hi @vibalre! Good call on taking some other task when you got stuck 🙂 👍 Overall I like your idea here (additional CI workflow step to extract R version into an environment variable). Please start a PR so we can discuss the technical details there.