[Suggestion]: Add Github action to build book

[Aeilert]

Hi Andres,

Since this is relatively live document with many contributors I was thinking we could add a Github action to always build from the latest .Rmd files when merging to master. So that we don't need to worry about adding all those extra files ourselves.

It possible that we need to host the site in a separate gh-pages branch though. See

https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/github.html

In order to add an empty gh-pages branch on remote do:

git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git rm -rf .
git commit --allow-empty -m "root commit"
git push origin gh-pages

[randrescastaneda]

Hi @Aeilert ,

I think this is a good idea. A few comments.

1. Since it is being deployed in /docs and master, I think Git will keep tracking everything that goes in /docs, so we would have to render locally in /_book or somewhere else so it is not capture by git, right?
2. Most of the sides that I have found are to deploy in Netlify, not github pages (like this). Yet, I found this other to deploy in gh-pages, but it does not seem so trivial, does it?

If you want, please give it a try and see if it works. For now, I am going to deploy the most recent version including your contributions.

Thanks

[randrescastaneda]

Also, I think we could make use of this and this, right?

[Aeilert]

Hi @randrescastaneda,

Sounds good. I'll take a look. Deploying with GH actions for pkgdown works quite well, but I haven't tried it with bookdown.