diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 11bb817..d2107f2 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 ^LICENSE\.md$
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
+^\.github$
diff --git a/.github/.gitignore b/.github/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d19fc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.html
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f442d99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+name: R-CMD-check
+
+jobs:
+  R-CMD-check:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
+
+    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: '3.6'}
+          - {os: macOS-latest, r: '3.6'}
+          - {os: macOS-latest, r: 'devel'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04, r: '3.2', rspm: "https://demo.rstudiopm.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04, r: '3.3', rspm: "https://demo.rstudiopm.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04, r: '3.4', rspm: "https://demo.rstudiopm.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04, r: '3.5', rspm: "https://demo.rstudiopm.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04, r: '3.6', rspm: "https://demo.rstudiopm.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+
+    env:
+      R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
+      RSPM: ${{ matrix.config.rspm }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+        with:
+          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@master
+
+      - name: Query dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages('remotes')
+          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
+        uses: actions/cache@v1
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-r-${{ matrix.config.r }}-
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        env:
+          RHUB_PLATFORM: linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc
+        run: |
+          Rscript -e "remotes::install_github('r-hub/sysreqs')"
+          sysreqs=$(Rscript -e "cat(sysreqs::sysreq_commands('DESCRIPTION'))")
+          sudo -s eval "$sysreqs"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+          remotes::install_cran("rcmdcheck")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Check
+        env:
+          _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_: false
+        run: rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = c("--no-manual", "--as-cran"), error_on = "warning", check_dir = "check")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Upload check results
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
+        with:
+          name: ${{ runner.os }}-r${{ matrix.config.r }}-results
+          path: check
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index fd4f073..71e21af 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -12,8 +12,14 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
   out.width = "100%"
 )
 ```
+
 # scmisc
 
+<!-- badges: start -->
+  [![R build status](https://github.com/ddiez/scmisc/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ddiez/scmisc/actions)
+<!-- badges: end -->
+  
+
 The goal of scmisc is to provide a common interface for several single cell packages.
 
 ## Installation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7a72dd6..8d38260 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 
 # scmisc
 
+<!-- badges: start -->
+
+[![R build
+status](https://github.com/ddiez/scmisc/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ddiez/scmisc/actions)
+<!-- badges: end -->
+
 The goal of scmisc is to provide a common interface for several single
 cell packages.