Action does not work on ubuntu 24.04 image (R not pre-installed)

[elinscott]

My github test using this action has started failing upon the switch of ubuntu-latest from 22.04 to 24.04. The latter does not come with R pre-installed (see actions/runner-images#10636).

The specific error I encounter is as follows (for the full failed run see here)

Run # Dependency resolution
  # Dependency resolution
  cat("os-version=", sessionInfo()$running, "\n", file = Sys.getenv("GITHUB_OUTPUT"), sep = "", append = TRUE)
  cat("r-version=", if (grepl("development", rv <- R.Version()$version.string)) as.character(getRversion()) else rv, "\n", file = Sys.getenv("GITHUB_OUTPUT"), sep = "", append = TRUE)
  Error: Rscript: command not found

As a quick fix I can manually provide install-r: true as an input to this action, but long-term the logic of action.yaml should be updated.

[dieghernan]

The sliding tag v3 includes a soft-deprecation of the install-r, now R is always installed.

Now if you have this setup you should receive the change without further intervetion:

  - name: Validate CITATION.cff
    uses: dieghernan/cff-validator@v3

Anyway I would like to move the action to a docker file to speed up the process and simplify the maintenance.

Thanks and sorry for the delay on the answer, I missed this one

[dieghernan]

Hi @elinscott , @aromanielloNTIA (from #17):

I have pushed a new release v4 (#18) that uses a Docker container including R, and I expect these issues to have been solved.

The backdrop is that now only ubuntu-* is supported, as Docker container actions does not support macOS or Windows.

Cheers