update bookdown book Publishing section

[jtbayly]

This page in the book could be updated with how to use Github Actions for CI.

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[cderv]

Thanks for opening the issue - Yes updating this chapter about deployment is on my TODO !

[cderv]

We could mentioned :

• Host platform
  • Github Pages
  • Gitlab Pages (How to publish a Bookdown book on GitLab #795: with two examples https://gitlab.com/dashohoxha/bookdown-example, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336983801_How_to_Publish_a_Book_With_Bookdown by @dashohoxha)
  • Netlify, digitalocean, ...
  • RStudio connect
• Deployment method:
  • Manual (rsconnect package, drag and drop)
  • Automatic (GHA, Github App, ...)

[apreshill]

A good list here too: https://rstudio.github.io/distill/publish_website.html

[shirdekel]

Is there a plan on including something about Netlify? I see that a discussion was startied on RStudio community but I can't find much else.

Edit: I now see this was already mentioned, so disregard.

[cderv]

That is always good to have reminder and showing that this is of interest. We'll try to make time to add a section on Netlify publication. I don't think there is anything specific to bookdown but it would surely help to have setup instruction in the book.

In the meantime, here are the resources we know about and would surely mentioned in the book

• Github Action + Netlify: https://www.emilhvitfeldt.com/post/bookdown-netlify-github-actions/
• Sharing on Short notice webinar: https://education.rstudio.com/blog/2020/04/sharing-on-short-notice/#questions-about-bookdown and https://www.rstudio.com/resources/webinars/sharing-on-short-notice-how-to-get-your-materials-online-with-r-markdown/

[cderv]

We should also remove travis section following security issue: https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/1437646118700175360