diff --git a/.github/.gitignore b/.github/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d19fc766
--- /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 000000000..54661d0ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Workflow derived from https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2/examples
+# Need help debugging build failures? Start at https://github.com/r-lib/actions#where-to-find-help
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, master]
+  pull_request:
+
+name: R-CMD-check.yaml
+
+permissions: read-all
+
+jobs:
+  R-CMD-check:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
+
+    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - {os: macos-latest,   r: 'release'}
+          - {os: windows-latest, r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'devel', http-user-agent: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'release'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-latest,   r: 'oldrel-1'}
+
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE: yes
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
+        with:
+          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+          http-user-agent: ${{ matrix.config.http-user-agent }}
+          use-public-rspm: true
+          extra-repositories: https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
+        with:
+          extra-packages: |
+              any::rcmdcheck
+              any::BH
+              any::Rcpp
+              any::RcppEigen
+              any::RcppParallel
+              any::StanHeaders
+          needs: check
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/check-r-package@v2
+        with:
+          upload-snapshots: true
+          build_args: 'c("--no-manual","--compact-vignettes=gs+qpdf")'
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 1502238b3..31cac8730 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
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 [![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/projpred?color=blue)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=projpred)
+[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/stan-dev/projpred/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/stan-dev/projpred/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)
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