setup-r-freebsd

r-hub/actions/setup-r-freebsd

Setup R on FreeBSD

It creates, sets up and starts a FreeBSD VM with R. It uses the awesome https://github.com/vmactions project internally for all the heavy lifting.

Features

• Starts FreeBSD VM with R and pak installed.
• Sets up the Rscript custom shell to run R code on the VM.
• Sets up the freebsd custom shell to run shell code on the VM.

Example

- uses: r-hub/actions/setup-r-freebsd@v1
  with:
    release: '14.1'

- name: Run R code on the FreeBSD VM
  shell: Rscript {0}
  run: |
    sessionInfo()

- name: Run shell code on the FreeBSD VM
  shell: freebsd {0}
  run: |
    uname -a

Inputs

• release: FreeBSD release to use. Default is '14.1'. See https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm#5-select-release for the list of supported releases.

Example workflow for R packages

See the [freebsd.yaml] file for a complete example workflow for R packages.

License

MIT @ Posit Software, PBC