Deploying github repo to a pkgdown website

[Manolo]

I have problems to deploying my github repo to a pkgdown website.

use_pkgdown_github_pages()

build_site()

when I go to: crbiodiversity

has only the title.

i have main and gh-pages branches. Is this setting correct?

[Gabor]

build_site() does not deploy your site, but there are other functions that do, e.g. look at pkgdown::deploy_site_github().

People usually deploy pkgdown sites from GitHub Actions, see e.g. actions/examples/pkgdown.yaml at v2 · r-lib/actions · GitHub for an example workflow that deploys to GitHub Pages.

[Manolo]

Thank you Gabor.

I couldn't run deploy_site_github(), but I tried deploy_to_branch() and I got this error:

README.Rmd and README.md should be both staged
use 'git commit --no-verify' to override this check

I tried git commit--no--verify but it didn't work.

[Gabor]

That seems to come from a pre-commit hook that you set up via usethis? Maybe remove it, IDK if it plays well with pkgdown deployments.

[Manolo]

Thank you Gabor.

I did this:

file.remove(".git/hooks/pre-commit")

use_github_action("pkgdown")

use_pkgdown_github_pages()

and it works.