diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 846a1ed..5812dc9 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
 ^doc$
 ^Meta$
 ^CRAN-RELEASE$
+^\.github$
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7ad052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# For help debugging build failures open an issue on the RStudio community with the 'github-actions' tag.
+# https://community.rstudio.com/new-topic?category=Package%20development&tags=github-actions
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+
+name: R-CMD-check
+
+jobs:
+  R-CMD-check:
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages(c("remotes", "rcmdcheck"))
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+      - name: Check
+        run: |
+          options(crayon.enabled = TRUE)
+          rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = "--no-manual", error_on = "error")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index b1fb37b..baa92b6 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 # Programmatic access to the South Florida Water Management District's [DBHYDRO database](https://www.sfwmd.gov/science-data/dbhydro)
 
 [![Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active)
-[![Travis-CI Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/dbhydroR.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/dbhydroR)
+[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroR/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroR/actions)
 [![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/dbhydroR)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dbhydroR) 
 [![](https://badges.ropensci.org/61_status.svg)](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/61)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/64503356.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/64503356)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9441ce5..7fb262e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 [![Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable
 state and is being actively
 developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active)
-[![Travis-CI Build
-Status](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/dbhydroR.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ropensci/dbhydroR)
+[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroR/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroR/actions)
 [![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/dbhydroR)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=dbhydroR)
 [![](https://badges.ropensci.org/61_status.svg)](https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/61)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/64503356.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/64503356)