This is inspired by this post by Simon Couch on how to run R scripts on a schedule with GitHub Actions, giving an alternative with Cloud Build.
The work flow looks to:
It assumes you have set-up googleCloudRunner via cr_setup()
for Cloud Builds and Cloud Scheduler, and have saved your git credentials previously to Secret Manager called "github-ssh".
For this we first need to create build steps that run the R code and commit the results back to a repo.
# can be R file location or in-line code r_code <- c("x <- rnorm(1:10)", "dir.create('data-raw')", "save(x, file = paste0('data-raw/data_', make.names(Sys.time()), '.Rda'))") bs <- c( # assumes you have git credentials saved to Secret Manager cr_buildstep_gitsetup("github-ssh"), cr_buildstep_git(c("clone", "git@github.com:$_GITHUB_REPO", "payload")), # run the R code above - could also be a file in the github repo cr_buildstep_r(r_code, id = "run r code", dir = "payload"), # could put the git commands in one cr_buildstep_bash step for brevity cr_buildstep_git(c("add","--all"), dir = "payload"), cr_buildstep_git(c("commit", "-a", "-m", "Ran R script to add data $BUILD_ID"), dir = "payload"), cr_buildstep_git(c("push", "git@github.com:$_GITHUB_REPO"), dir = "payload") ) # using a substitution var for the GitHub repo to make it more portable build_yaml <- cr_build_yaml( steps = bs, substitutions = list(`_GITHUB_REPO`="MarkEdmondson1234/r-code-commit-github") )
Debug and test if the script works first by sending to cr_build()
- this pops up the build log in your browser.
For example, when doing this I found I had to modify my code to create the data folder in R and clone to "payload" directory.
See some commits to my test repo here.
Now the build needs a schedule. Taking a working YAML configuration, we use that to create the API call for Cloud Scheduler that will run the build periodically:
# your running successful build build <- cr_build_make(build_yaml) # create build API call schedule_me <- cr_schedule_http(build) # schedule the build cr_schedule("r-2-git-demo", "5 15 * * 0", httpTarget = schedule_me) #==CloudScheduleJob== #name: projects/xxxx/locations/europe-west1/jobs/r-2-git-demo #state: ENABLED #httpTarget.uri: https://cloudbuild.googleapis.com/v1/projects/xxxx/builds #httpTarget.httpMethod: POST #userUpdateTime: 2021-01-01T07:21:44Z #schedule: 5 15 * * 0 #timezone: Europe/Copenhagen
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