Various GH workflow improvements

.github/workflows/directory_writer.yml

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+name: Directory writer
+on:
+  schedule:
+  #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+  #        │  ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+  #        │  │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+  #        │  │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
+  #        │  │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
+  #        │  │ │ │ │
+  #        │  │ │ │ │
+  #        │  │ │ │ │
+  #        *  * * * *
+  - cron: '0 0 * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  build:
+    if: github.repository == 'TheAlgorithms/R' # We only need this to run in our repository.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Build directory
+        uses: TheAlgorithms/scripts/directory_md@main
+        with:
+          language: R
+          working-directory: .
+          filetypes: .r
+          ignored-directories: .github/,documentation/

.github/workflows/documentation_workflow.yml

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 name: Documentation
 on: [push, pull_request]
-
 jobs:
   MakeDocs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Setup R
         uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2-branch
         with:
           r-version: '4.1.0'
       - name: Create Documentation directory
         run: |
-          echo "Creating 'Documentation'"
+          echo "Creating documentation directory"
           mkdir -p documentation
       - name: Install knitr dependency
         run: |
           echo "Installing R package dependencies. Scripts might have additional dependencies installed."
           Rscript -e 'if (!require(knitr)) install.packages("knitr")'
       - name: Documentation compilation
         run: 'Rscript .github/scripts/doc_builder.r'
-      - name: Commit Documentation
+      - name: Setup Git
+        run: |
+          echo "Setting up Git"
+          git config --global user.name github-actions[bot]
+          git config --global user.email 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+      - name: Creating a branch
         run: |
-          git diff-index --quiet HEAD && exit
-          echo "Setting up Git to push changes."
-          git config --global user.name 'autoprettier'
-          git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
-          git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}@github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY
-          echo "Staging documentation"
-          git add documentation/ # This is the only directory that has changes and should be staged
-          git commit -m "Update documentation" || true
-          git push || true
+          git checkout -b docs_update-${{ github.sha }}
+      - name: Commit and push changes
+        run: |
+          if [[ `git status --porcelain` ]];
+          then  
+            echo "Staging and committing documentation changes"
+            git add documentation/
+            git commit -m "Update documentation" || true
+            git push origin docs_update-${{ github.sha }}:docs_update-${{ github.sha }}
+
+            gh pr create --base ${GITHUB_REF##*/} --head docs_update-${{ github.sha }} --title '' --body 'Updated the documentation files (see the diff. for changes).' || true
+          fi

.github/workflows/filename_formatter.yml

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+name: Filename formatter
+on: [push, workflow_dispatch]
+jobs:
+  formatter:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Filename Formatter
+        uses: TheAlgorithms/scripts/formatter@main
+        with:
+          filetypes: .r
+          ignore-files: documentation/,.github/