diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 5bd0d2b..9a9df9b 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ^LICENSE\.md$
 ^Makefile$
-^\.travis\.yml$
 ^docs/
+^\.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..145f0dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# 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: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages(c("remotes", "rcmdcheck"))
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+      - name: Check
+        run: rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = "--no-manual", error_on = "error")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c25ccd..0000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-language: r
-
-warnings_are_errors: true
-
-sudo: required
-
-notifications:
-  email:
-    on_success: change
-    on_failure: always
-
-before_script:
-  - export PKG_NAME=$(Rscript -e 'cat(paste0(devtools::as.package(".")$package))')
-  - export PKG_TARBALL=$(Rscript -e 'pkg <- devtools::as.package("."); cat(paste0(pkg$package,"_",pkg$version,".tar.gz"))')
-  - R CMD build --no-build-vignettes .
-  - R CMD INSTALL ${PKG_TARBALL}
-  - rm ${PKG_TARBALL}
-  - echo "Session info:"
-  - Rscript -e "library(${PKG_NAME});devtools::session_info('${PKG_NAME}')"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d9a0f4..425ab9a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## R/GNapi - R package to connect to the [GeneNetwork](http://gn2.genenetwork.org/) API
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rqtl/GNapi.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rqtl/GNapi)
+[![R build status](https://github.com/rqtl/GNapi/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/rqtl/GNapi/actions)
 
 ---