updated R-CMD-check action

.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml

@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 # Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
 # Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
-
+#
+# NOTE: This workflow is overkill for most R packages and
+# check-standard.yaml is likely a better choice.
+# usethis::use_github_action("check-standard") will install it.
 on:
   push:
     branches: [main, master]
   pull_request:
     branches: [main, master]
-  schedule:
-    - cron:  '0 8 * * 0'
 
-name: R-CMD-check
+name: R-CMD-check.yaml
+
+permissions: read-all
 
 jobs:
   R-CMD-check:
-    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'skip ci')"
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
 
     name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
@@ -25,23 +27,22 @@ jobs:
           - {os: macos-latest,   r: 'release'}
 
           - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
-          # Use 3.6 to trigger usage of RTools35
-          - {os: windows-latest, r: '3.6'}
-          # use 4.1 to check with rtools40's older compiler
-          - {os: windows-latest, r: '4.1'}
+          # use 4.0 or 4.1 to check with rtools40's older compiler
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'oldrel-4'}
 
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-2'}
-          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-3'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-1'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-2'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-3'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,  r: 'oldrel-4'}
 
     env:
       GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
 
@@ -59,14 +60,4 @@ jobs:
       - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
         with:
           upload-snapshots: true
-
-      - name: action-slack
-        if: failure()
-        env:
-          SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-        uses: 8398a7/action-slack@v3.0.0
-        with:
-          status: ${{ job.status }}
-          author_name: "github action: ${{github.workflow}}"
-          fields: repo, ref, commit, author, message
-
+          build_args: 'c("--no-manual","--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf")'