diff --git a/.github/workflows/tic.yml b/.github/workflows/tic.yml
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-## tic GitHub Actions template: linux-deploy
-## revision date: 2022-08-28
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  push:
-    branches:
-    - main
-    - master
-    - cran-*
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-    - main
-    - master
-  # for now, CRON jobs only run on the default branch of the repo (i.e. usually on master)
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    - cron: "0 4 * * *"
-
-name: tic
-
-jobs:
-  all:
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
-
-    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          # use a different tic template type if you do not want to build on all listed platforms
-          - { os: ubuntu-latest, r: "release", pkgdown: "true" }
-
-    env:
-      # [Custom env var] fake virtual display for rgl package
-      DISPLAY: ":99"
-      # make sure to run `tic::use_ghactions_deploy()` to set up deployment
-      TIC_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.TIC_DEPLOY_KEY }}
-      # prevent rgl issues because no X11 display is available
-      RGL_USE_NULL: true
-      # if you use bookdown or blogdown, replace "PKGDOWN" by the respective
-      # capitalized term. This also might need to be done in tic.R
-      BUILD_PKGDOWN: ${{ matrix.config.pkgdown }}
-      # use GITHUB_TOKEN from GitHub to workaround rate limits in {remotes}
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
-        with:
-          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
-          Ncpus: 4
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-tinytex@v2
-        if: matrix.config.latex == 'true'
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
-
-      # set date/week for use in cache creation
-      # https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/How-to-set-and-access-a-Workflow-variable/m-p/42970
-      # - cache R packages daily
-      - name: "[Cache] Prepare daily timestamp for cache"
-        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
-        id: date
-        run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date '+%d-%m')"
-
-      - name: "[Cache] Cache R packages"
-        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
-        uses: pat-s/always-upload-cache@v3
-        with:
-          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-${{steps.date.outputs.date}}
-          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-${{steps.date.outputs.date}}
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Install pak"
-        run: Rscript -e "install.packages('pak', repos = 'https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable')"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Install"
-        run: Rscript -e "if (grepl('Ubuntu', Sys.info()[['version']])) {options(repos = c(CRAN = sprintf('https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/%s/latest', system('lsb_release -cs', intern = TRUE))))}; pak::pkg_install('ropensci/tic')" -e "print(tic::dsl_load())" -e "tic::prepare_all_stages()" -e "tic::before_install()" -e "tic::install()"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Script"
-        run: Rscript -e 'tic::script()'
-
-      - name: "[Stage] After Success"
-        run: Rscript -e "tic::after_success()"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Upload R CMD check artifacts"
-        if: failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
-        with:
-          name: ${{ runner.os }}-r${{ matrix.config.r }}-results
-          path: check
-      - name: "[Stage] Before Deploy"
-        run: |
-          Rscript -e "tic::before_deploy()"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Deploy"
-        run: Rscript -e "tic::deploy()"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] After Deploy"
-        run: Rscript -e "tic::after_deploy()"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-tic.yml b/.github/workflows/update-tic.yml
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-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    - cron: "0 4 * * 0" # every week
-
-name: Update tic
-
-jobs:
-  update-tic:
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
-
-    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
-
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        config:
-          - { os: ubuntu-latest, r: "release" }
-
-    env:
-      # use GITHUB_TOKEN from GitHub to workaround rate limits in {remotes}
-      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-
-      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
-        with:
-          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
-          Ncpus: 4
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Dependencies"
-        run: |
-          Rscript -e "install.packages('pak', repos = 'https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/stable')"
-          Rscript -e "if (grepl('Ubuntu', Sys.info()[['version']])) {options(repos = c(CRAN = sprintf('https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/%s/latest', system('lsb_release -cs', intern = TRUE))))}; pak::pkg_install('ropensci/tic', dependencies = TRUE)"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Update YAMLs"
-        run: |
-            Rscript -e "tic::update_yml()"
-
-      - name: "[Stage] Create Pull Request"
-        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
-        with:
-          author: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
-          token: ${{ secrets.TIC_UPDATE }}
-          title: "Update tic templates [ci-skip]"
-          commit-message: "update tic templates"
-          body: "{tic} templates can be updated :rocket: :robot:"
-          branch: update-tic