Github Actions offers several advantages over travis-ci including longer sessions and more resources. In addition, applying package caching to a github actions workflow can essentially eliminate the time associated with package installation after the first build. See here for an example (that has some extra bells-and-whistles):
https://github.com/seandavi/BuildABiocWorkshop2020/blob/master/.github/workflows/basic_checks.yaml#L9-L21 Sean On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 5:45 PM Koen Van den Berge <koenvdbe...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Dear All, > > We have recently extended our Bioconductor package tradeSeq < > https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/tradeSeq.html> to allow > different input formats and accommodate extended downstream analyses, by > building on other R/Bioconductor packages. > However this has resulted in a significant increase in the number of > dependencies due to relying on other packages that also have many > dependencies, for example causing very long build times on Travis < > https://travis-ci.com/github/statOmics/tradeSeq>. > > We are therefore wondering about current recommendations to reduce the > dependency load. We have moved some larger packages from ‘Imports’ to > ‘Suggests’, but to no avail. > > Best, > Koen > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- Sean Davis, MD, PhD Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 https://seandavi.github.io/ https://twitter.com/seandavis12 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
