Gitlab CI fails for r package - r

Question

I am building an R Package on GitLab and I am trying to get the GitLab CI to work, the issues are
devtools::check fails if there is an error, warning or note. I only want it to fail on errors
Deploy pkgdown to GitLab pages, it doesn't seem to work?
Below is the .gitlab-ci-yml I am using. I used the R package template from R Studio to test it.
# .gitlab-ci.yml
image: methodsconsultants/r-packaging
variables:
DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
PKGNAME: "test"
R_LIBS_USER: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/lib"
CHECK_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/logs"
BUILD_LOGS_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/logs/$PKGNAME.Rcheck"
cache:
paths:
- $R_LIBS_USER
- vendor/apt
stages:
- build
- check
- test
- pages
before_script:
- mkdir -p vendor/apt
- apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update -qq
- apt-get remove -y libgcc-8-dev
- apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="vendor/apt" install -y libcairo2-dev -qq
buildbinary:
stage: build
script:
- r -e 'devtools::build(binary = TRUE)'
checkErrors:
stage: check
script:
- r -e 'if (!identical(devtools::check(document = FALSE, args = "--no-tests")[["errors"]], character(0))) stop("Check with Errors")'
unittests:
stage: test
script:
- r -e 'if (any(as.data.frame(devtools::test())[["failed"]] > 0)) stop("Some tests failed.")'
pages:
script:
- R -e "pkgdown::build_site()"
artifacts:
paths:
- public
only:
- master
Note
Everything works locally, devtools::check() produces warnings and notes but no errors. pkgdown builds fine. tests pass fine.
Gitlab CI is working, the build step and test stages pass fine, then fails on devtools::check() error message
I tried gitlab pages by removing the check() phrase, the pipeline finishes fine but under setting > Pages I can't see anything?

Answer 1

Worked it out:
devtools::check seems to raise an error on warnings on gitlab CI BUT not locally? Don't understand it, but you can set it explicitly which works devtools::check(error_on = "error")
GitLab pages I think needs to be in a deploy stage? Anyway it works now :) I did change the output folder of pkgdown to public to match gitlab pages (shown below)
Hope this helps anyone who stumbles upon this!
# .gitlab-ci.yml
image: rocker/tidyverse
variables:
DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
PKGNAME: "test"
R_LIBS_USER: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/lib"
CHECK_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/logs"
BUILD_LOGS_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/ci/logs/$PKGNAME.Rcheck"
cache:
paths:
- $R_LIBS_USER
- vendor/apt
stages:
- build
- test
- deploy
before_script:
- R -e 'devtools::install_deps(dep = T)'
buildbinary:
stage: build
script:
- R -e 'devtools::check(vignettes = FALSE, error_on = "error")'
unittests:
stage: test
script:
- r -e 'if (any(as.data.frame(devtools::test())[["failed"]] > 0)) stop("Some tests failed.")'
pages:
stage: deploy
script:
- R -e "install.packages('pkgdown')"
- R -e "pkgdown::build_site()"
artifacts:
paths:
- public
expire_in: 1 day
rules:
- if: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH
# _pkgdown.yml
url: ~
template:
bootstrap: 5
destination: public/