[CI] Improve R linter script (#5944)

* [CI] Move lint to a separate script

* [CI] Improved lintr launcher

* Add lintr as a separate action

* Add custom parsing logic to print out logs

* Fix lintr issues in demos

* Run R demos

* Fix CRAN checks

* Install XGBoost into R env before running lintr

* Install devtools (needed to run demos)

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ name: XGBoost-CI
 # events but only for the master branch
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
+env:
+  R_PACKAGES: c('XML', 'igraph', 'data.table', 'magrittr', 'stringi', 'ggplot2', 'DiagrammeR', 'Ckmeans.1d.dp', 'vcd', 'testthat', 'lintr', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'e1071', 'cplm', 'devtools')
+
 # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
 jobs:
   test-with-jvm:
@@ -38,6 +41,49 @@ jobs:
         mvn test -pl :xgboost4j_2.12
 
 
+  lintr:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
+
+    name: Run R linters on OS ${{ matrix.config.os }}, R ${{ matrix.config.r }}, Compiler ${{ matrix.config.compiler }}, Build ${{ matrix.config.build }}
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release', compiler: 'mingw', build: 'autotools'}
+    env:
+      R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
+      RSPM: ${{ matrix.config.rspm }}
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        submodules: 'true'
+
+    - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+      with:
+        r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+
+    - name: Cache R packages
+      uses: actions/cache@v2
+      with:
+        path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-1-${{ hashFiles('R-package/DESCRIPTION') }}
+        restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-2-
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      shell: Rscript {0}
+      run: |
+        install.packages(${{ env.R_PACKAGES }},
+                         repos = 'http://cloud.r-project.org',
+                         dependencies = c('Depends', 'Imports', 'LinkingTo'))
+
+    - name: Run lintr
+      run: |
+        cd R-package
+        R.exe CMD INSTALL .
+        Rscript.exe tests/run_lint.R
+
+
   test-with-R:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
 
@@ -78,8 +124,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       shell: Rscript {0}
       run: |
-        install.packages(c('XML','igraph'))
-        install.packages(c('data.table','magrittr','stringi','ggplot2','DiagrammeR','Ckmeans.1d.dp','vcd','testthat','lintr','knitr','rmarkdown'))
+        install.packages(${{ env.R_PACKAGES }},
+                         repos = 'http://cloud.r-project.org',
+                         dependencies = c('Depends', 'Imports', 'LinkingTo'))
 
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with: