quarto-publish.yml

name: Quarto Publish

# the on statement tells github actions whnen to run the action
on:
  # pushing to main
  push:
    branches: main
    
permissions: write-all

# define the job
jobs:
  # we name it quarto-deploy
  quarto-deploy:
    # define the virtual environment
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # the steps are the individual actions that are needed to complete the job

    steps:
        
        # first step is check out the repository so we have access to the files
        # inside the repository in our virtual environment
      - name: Check out repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        
        # now we install quarto in the environment
      - name: Set up Quarto
        uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/setup@v2
        
        # we also install R
      - name: Install R
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
        with:
          r-version: '4.3.1'

        # and the required R dependencies
      - name: Install R Dependencies
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-renv@v2
        with:
          cache-version: 1

        # now we use a pre-created action to basically run 
        # quarto publish gh-pages
      - name: Render and Publish
        uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/publish@v2
        with:
          target: gh-pages
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}