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+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - 'README.Rmd'
+
+name: Render README
+
+jobs:
+  render:
+    name: Render README
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1
+      - name: Install rmarkdown, remotes, and the local package
+        run: |
+          install.packages("remotes")
+          remotes::install_local(".")
+          remotes::install_cran("rmarkdown")
+          remotes::install_cran("magrittr")
+          remotes::install_cran("dplyr")
+          remotes::install_cran("ggplot2")
+          remotes::install_cran("glue")
+          remotes::install_github("lorenzwalthert/gitsum")
+          remotes::install_github("pharmaR/riskmetric")
+          install.packages("ggthemes")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+      - name: Render README
+        run: |
+          RMD_PATH=$(git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r ${{ github.event.push.ref }} | grep '[.]Rmd$' | head -n 1)
+          Rscript -e 'rmarkdown::render(commandArgs(TRUE))' ${RMD_PATH}
+      - name: Commit results
+        run: |
+          git config --local user.email "actions@github.com"
+          git config --local user.name "GitHub Actions"
+          git commit README.md -m 'Re-build README.Rmd' || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"