multideploy

The {multideploy} package provides tools for deploying file changes across multiple GitHub repositories. It’s designed to help you manage standardized configurations, CI/CD workflows, and other common files that need to be synchronized across multiple repositories.

Installation

You can install the development version of {multideploy} from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("coatless-rpkg/multideploy")

Authentication

{multideploy} uses the gh package for GitHub API authentication and querying. Before using {multideploy}, make sure you have a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) set up:

# Set GitHub PAT (or use .Renviron)
Sys.setenv(GITHUB_PAT = askpass::askpass("What is your GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)?"))

For regular use, it’s recommended to add your PAT to the git credential system through the {gitcreds} package:

gitcreds::gitcreds_set()

Quick Start Example

Here’s an example showing how to deploy a standardized CI workflow file to multiple repositories using {multideploy}:

library(multideploy)

# List repositories in an organization matching a pattern
repos <- repos("my-organization", filter_regex = "^api-")

# Deploy a CI workflow file to the selected repositories
results <- file_deploy(
  source_file = "templates/check-standard.yml",
  target_path = ".github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml",
  repos = repos
)

# View results
print(results)

Important

The GitHub PAT used for authentication must have the necessary permissions to access and modify the repositories’ workflows.

Extended Overview

If you’re looking for more detailed examples on how to use {multideploy}, we step through the additional features of the package within this section.

Repository Selection

List and filter repositories across users or organizations:

# Get all public repositories for a user
user_repos <- repos("username", type = "public")

# Get repositories for an organization matching a pattern
org_repos <- repos("orgname", filter_regex = "^data-")

# List organizations you have access to
my_orgs <- orgs()

File Deployment

Deploy individual files or sets of files to multiple repositories:

# Deploy a single file
file_deploy("local/path/file.R", "remote/path/file.R", repos)

# Create a mapping of multiple files
mapping <- file_mapping(
  "local/lint.R" = ".lintr",
  "local/gitignore" = ".gitignore",
  dir = "templates/workflows",
  pattern = "\\.ya?ml$",
  target_prefix = ".github/workflows/"
)

# Create pull requests with multiple file changes
pr_create(
  repos = repos,
  branch_name = "feature/standardize-workflows",
  title = "Standardize CI workflows",
  body = "Implements organization-wide CI workflow standards",
  file_mapping = mapping
)

Dry Run Mode

Preview changes before making them:

# Preview changes without making them
file_deploy("local/file.R", "remote/file.R", repos, dry_run = TRUE)

# Preview PR creation
pr_create(repos, "branch-name", "PR Title", "PR Body", mapping, dry_run = TRUE)

License

AGPL (>= 3)