install system dependencies

.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml

@@ -39,6 +39,17 @@ jobs:
           # Enable RStudio Package Manager to speed up package installation
           use-public-rspm: true
 
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        # This is not taken care of (yet) by r-lib/actions/setup-renv
+        # Package distro used to get the distro for the used ubuntu-latest
+        run: |
+          Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'distro'))"
+          while read -r cmd
+          do
+            eval sudo $cmd
+          done < <(Rscript -e 'writeLines(with(distro::distro(), remotes::system_requirements(id, short_version)))')
+
+
       - name: Activate renv and restore packages with cache
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-renv@v2