Gemini: back to exclude

Author: MichaelChirico

.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-occasional.yaml

@@ -18,30 +18,40 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: [macOS-latest, windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
         r: ['devel', 'release', '3.5', '3.6', '4.0', '4.1', '4.2', '4.3', '4.4', '4.5']
-        locale: ['en_US.utf8']
-        # Only run non-English-locale CI runs on Ubuntu
-        include:
-          # For multibyte characters
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'zh_CN.utf8' # Mandarin
-          # For collate order (#3502, see also #7837)
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'lv_LV.utf8' # Latvian
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'az_AZ.utf8' # Azeri
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'hu_HU.utf8' # Hungarian
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'fo_FO.utf8' # Faroese
-          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            r: 'devel'
-            locale: 'sq_MK.utf8' # Albanian (in North Macedonia)
+        locale: ['en_US.utf8',
+                 # Multibyte characters: Mandarin
+                 'zh_CN.utf8',
+                 # Collate order (#3502, see also #7837): Latvian, Azeri, Hungarian, Faroese, Albanian
+                 'lv_LV.utf8', 'az_AZ.utf8', 'hu_HU.utf8', 'fo_FO.utf8', 'sq_MK.utf8']
+        # we're constrained by GHA inflexibility to do a tedious thing here with 'exclude' below.
+        #   better would be for GHA to support multiple 'matrix' configs (one for ubuntu, one for other OS);
+        #   an approach with multiple jobs would tediously require copy-pasting the _rest_ of the steps
         exclude:
+          # only run non-English locale CI on Ubuntu
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'zh_CN.utf8'
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'lv_LV.utf8'
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'az_AZ.utf8'
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'hu_HU.utf8'
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'fo_FO.utf8'
+          - os: macOS-latest
+            locale: 'sq_MK.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'zh_CN.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'lv_LV.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'az_AZ.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'hu_HU.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'fo_FO.utf8'
+          - os: windows-latest
+            locale: 'sq_MK.utf8'
           # macOS/arm64 only available for R>=4.1.0
           - os: macOS-latest
             r: '3.5'