diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index f413fe8cc..f56cd24f9 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -17,12 +17,10 @@ inst\/doc\/DBI\.b..$
 ^inst/staticdocs$
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
-^\.travis\.yml$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
 ^revdep$
 ^\.httr-oauth$
 ^scripts$
-^tic\.R$
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
 ^revdep/
 ^API$
@@ -32,4 +30,3 @@ inst\/doc\/DBI\.b..$
 ^codecov\.yml$
 ^LICENSE\.md$
 ^README\.Rmd$
-^appveyor\.yml$
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-dev.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-dev.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6144b4a85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-dev.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - master
+  schedule:
+    - cron:  '0 8 * * *'
+
+name: rcc dev
+
+jobs:
+  R-CMD-check:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
+
+    name: ${{ matrix.config.os }} (${{ matrix.config.r }})
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        config:
+          - {os: ubuntu-18.04, r: 'release', rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/bionic/latest"}
+
+    env:
+      R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
+      RSPM: ${{ matrix.config.rspm }}
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+        with:
+          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1
+
+      - name: "Prepare timestamp for cache"
+        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
+        id: date
+        run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date -Ihours)"
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-r-dev-${{ matrix.config.r }}-${{steps.date.outputs.date}}
+          restore-keys: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-r-dev-${{ matrix.config.r }}-
+
+      - name: Install remotes
+        run: |
+          install.packages("remotes")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        run: |
+          while read -r cmd
+          do
+            eval sudo $cmd
+          done < <(Rscript -e 'writeLines(remotes::system_requirements("ubuntu", "16.04"))')
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          library(remotes)
+          deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+          update(deps)
+          lapply(setNames(nm = deps$package), function(x) try(remotes::install_dev(x)))
+          remotes::install_cran("rcmdcheck")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Session info
+        run: |
+          options(width = 100)
+          pkgs <- installed.packages()[, "Package"]
+          if (!("sessioninfo" %in% pkgs)) install.packages("sessioninfo")
+          sessioninfo::session_info(pkgs, include_base = TRUE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Check
+        env:
+          _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_: false
+          _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_: false
+          _R_CHECK_FUTURE_FILE_TIMESTAMPS_: false
+          RCMDCHECK_ERROR_ON: note
+        run: rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = c("--no-manual", "--as-cran"), error_on = Sys.getenv("RCMDCHECK_ERROR_ON"), check_dir = "check")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Show testthat output
+        if: always()
+        run: find check -name '*.Rout*' -exec head -n 1000000 '{}' \; || true
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Upload check results
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
+        with:
+          name: ${{ runner.os }}-r${{ matrix.config.r }}-results
+          path: check
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c79a9886
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+# NOTE: This workflow is overkill for most R packages
+# check-standard.yaml is likely a better choice
+# usethis::use_github_action("check-standard") will install it.
+#
+# 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
+  schedule:
+    - cron:  '0 8 * * *'
+
+name: rcc
+
+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: windows-latest, r: 'oldrel'}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: 'devel', rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest", http-user-agent: "R/4.0.0 (ubuntu-16.04) R (4.0.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu x86_64 linux-gnu) on GitHub Actions" }
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: 'release', rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: 'oldrel',  rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: '3.5',     rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: '3.4',     rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+          - {os: ubuntu-16.04,   r: '3.3',     rspm: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"}
+
+    env:
+      R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS: true
+      RSPM: ${{ matrix.config.rspm }}
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v1
+        with:
+          r-version: ${{ matrix.config.r }}
+          http-user-agent: ${{ matrix.config.http-user-agent }}
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v1
+
+      - name: Query dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages('remotes')
+          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE, type = .Platform$pkgType), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
+          writeLines(sprintf("R-%i.%i", getRversion()$major, getRversion()$minor), ".github/R-version")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        if: runner.os != 'Windows'
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-2-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-2-
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        run: |
+          while read -r cmd
+          do
+            eval sudo $cmd
+          done < <(Rscript -e 'writeLines(remotes::system_requirements("ubuntu", "16.04"))')
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE, type = .Platform$pkgType)
+          remotes::install_cran("rcmdcheck")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Session info
+        run: |
+          options(width = 100)
+          pkgs <- installed.packages()[, "Package"]
+          if (!("sessioninfo" %in% pkgs)) install.packages("sessioninfo")
+          sessioninfo::session_info(pkgs, include_base = TRUE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Check
+        env:
+          _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_: false
+          _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_: false
+          _R_CHECK_FUTURE_FILE_TIMESTAMPS_: false
+        run: |
+          # Begin custom: rcmdcheck error_on
+          error_on <- if (getRversion() >= "3.4") "note" else "warning"
+          # End custom: rcmdcheck error_on
+          rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args = c("--no-manual", "--as-cran"), error_on = error_on, check_dir = "check")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Show testthat output
+        if: always()
+        run: find check -name '*.Rout*' -exec head -n 1000000 '{}' \; || true
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Upload check results
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
+        with:
+          name: ${{ runner.os }}-r${{ matrix.config.r }}-results
+          path: check
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76583043e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+    - main
+    - "docs*"
+    - "cran-*"
+
+name: pkgdown
+
+jobs:
+  pkgdown:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      RSPM: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/bionic/latest"
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@master
+
+      - name: Query dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages("remotes")
+          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
+          writeLines(sprintf("R-%i.%i", getRversion()$major, getRversion()$minor), ".github/R-version")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-1-
+
+      - name: Configure Git identity
+        run: |
+          env | sort
+          git config --global user.name "$GITHUB_WORKFLOW"
+          git config --global user.email "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}@ghactions.local"
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        run: |
+          while read -r cmd
+          do
+            eval sudo $cmd
+          done < <(Rscript -e 'req <- remotes::system_requirements("ubuntu", "18.04"); if (length(req) > 0) cat(req, sep = "\n")')
+
+      - name: Install pkgdown sysdeps
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        env:
+          RHUB_PLATFORM: linux-x86_64-ubuntu-gcc
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -y libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages("remotes")
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+          remotes::install_github("r-lib/pkgdown")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Install package
+        run: R CMD INSTALL .
+
+      - name: Build site
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: |
+          pkgdown::build_site()
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Deploy package
+        if: github.event_name == 'push'
+        run: |
+          pkgdown::deploy_to_branch(new_process = FALSE)
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee98c9d74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-commands.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+on:
+  issue_comment:
+    types: [created]
+name: Commands
+jobs:
+  document:
+    if: startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/document')
+    name: document
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@master
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "roxygen2"))' -e 'remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)'
+      - name: Document
+        run: Rscript -e 'roxygen2::roxygenise()'
+      - name: commit
+        run: |
+          git add man/\* NAMESPACE
+          git commit -m 'Document'
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-push@master
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+  style:
+    if: startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/style')
+    name: style
+    runs-on: macOS-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-fetch@master
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: Rscript -e 'install.packages("styler")'
+      - name: Style
+        run: Rscript -e 'styler::style_pkg()'
+      - name: commit
+        run: |
+          git add \*.R
+          git commit -m 'Style'
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/pr-push@master
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+  # A mock job just to ensure we have a successful build status
+  finish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - run: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a2b6a2ce6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-coverage.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+      - main
+
+name: test-coverage
+
+jobs:
+  test-coverage:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-16.04
+    env:
+      GITHUB_PAT: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      RSPM: "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/xenial/latest"
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@master
+
+      - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@master
+
+      - name: Query dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages('remotes')
+          saveRDS(remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies = TRUE), ".github/depends.Rds", version = 2)
+          writeLines(sprintf("R-%i.%i", getRversion()$major, getRversion()$minor), ".github/R-version")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Cache R packages
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.R_LIBS_USER }}
+          key: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-2-${{ hashFiles('.github/depends.Rds') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ matrix.config.os }}-${{ hashFiles('.github/R-version') }}-2-
+
+      - name: Install system dependencies
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        run: |
+          while read -r cmd
+          do
+            eval sudo $cmd
+          done < <(Rscript -e 'req <- remotes::system_requirements("ubuntu", "16.04"); if (length(req) > 0) cat(req, sep = "\n")')
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          install.packages(c("remotes"))
+          remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)
+          remotes::install_cran("covr")
+        shell: Rscript {0}
+
+      - name: Test coverage
+        run: covr::codecov()
+        shell: Rscript {0}
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0dc9f4786..000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-# R for travis: see documentation at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/r
-# Default configuration for use with tic package
-# Usually you shouldn't need to change the first part of the file
-
-# DO NOT CHANGE THE CODE BELOW
-before_install: R -q -e 'install.packages(c("remotes", "curl")); remotes::install_github("ropenscilabs/tic"); tic::prepare_all_stages(); tic::before_install()'
-install: R -q -e 'tic::install()'
-after_install: R -q -e 'tic::after_install()'
-before_script: R -q -e 'tic::before_script()'
-script: R -q -e 'tic::script()'
-after_success: R -q -e 'tic::after_success()'
-after_failure: R -q -e 'tic::after_failure()'
-before_deploy: R -q -e 'tic::before_deploy()'
-deploy:
-  provider: script
-  script: R -q -e 'tic::deploy()'
-  on:
-    all_branches: true
-after_deploy: R -q -e 'tic::after_deploy()'
-after_script: R -q -e 'tic::after_script()'
-# DO NOT CHANGE THE CODE ABOVE
-
-# Custom parts:
-
-# Header
-language: r
-sudo: false
-dist: xenial
-cache: packages
-latex: true
-fortran: false
-
-#stages: test, full
-stages:
-- name: test
-  if: branch != docs
-- name: docs
-  if: branch = docs OR branch = master
-- name: full
-  if: branch = master
-
-#env
-env:
-  global:
-  - _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false
-  - _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=false
-  - MAKEFLAGS="-j 2"
-
-#addons
-addons:
-  apt:
-    packages:
-    - libmagick++-dev
-    - libssh2-1-dev
-
-#jobs
-matrix:
-  include:
-  - r: devel
-    env:
-    - DEV_VERSIONS=true
-  - r: 3.2
-  - stage: docs
-    r: release
-    env:
-    - BUILD_PKGDOWN=true
-  - stage: full
-    os: osx
-    latex: false
-  - r: 3.5
-  - r: 3.4
-  - r: 3.3
-  fast_finish: true
-
-#notifications
-notifications:
-  email:
-    on_success: change
-    on_failure: change
-
-# Custom parts:
-
-#services
-services:
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index be5cdb9e8..1481e38c5 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(
 # DBI
 
 <!-- badges: start -->
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/r-dbi/DBI.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/r-dbi/DBI)
-[![AppVeyor build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/r-dbi/DBI?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/r-dbi/DBI)
+[![rcc](https://github.com/r-dbi/DBI/workflows/rcc/badge.svg)](https://github.com/r-dbi/DBI/actions)
 [![Coverage Status](https://codecov.io/gh/r-dbi/DBI/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/github/r-dbi/DBI?branch=master)
 [![CRAN_Status_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/DBI)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI)
 [![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1882/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1882)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 00798c5bf..f5dcc4dd6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
 
 <!-- badges: start -->
 
-[![Build
-Status](https://travis-ci.org/r-dbi/DBI.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/r-dbi/DBI)
-[![AppVeyor build
-status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/r-dbi/DBI?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/r-dbi/DBI)
+[![rcc](https://github.com/r-dbi/DBI/workflows/rcc/badge.svg)](https://github.com/r-dbi/DBI/actions)
 [![Coverage
 Status](https://codecov.io/gh/r-dbi/DBI/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/github/r-dbi/DBI?branch=master)
 [![CRAN\_Status\_Badge](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/DBI)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI)
@@ -21,11 +18,11 @@ The DBI package helps connecting R to database management systems
 and a “back-end”. The package defines an interface that is implemented
 by *DBI backends* such as:
 
-  - [RPostgres](https://rpostgres.r-dbi.org),
-  - [RMariaDB](https://rmariadb.r-dbi.org),
-  - [RSQLite](https://rsqlite.r-dbi.org),
-  - [odbc](https://github.com/r-dbi/odbc),
-  - [bigrquery](https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery),
+-   [RPostgres](https://rpostgres.r-dbi.org),
+-   [RMariaDB](https://rmariadb.r-dbi.org),
+-   [RSQLite](https://rsqlite.r-dbi.org),
+-   [odbc](https://github.com/r-dbi/odbc),
+-   [bigrquery](https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery),
 
 and many more. R scripts and packages use DBI to access various
 databases through their DBI backends.
@@ -37,12 +34,12 @@ Python’s [DB-API](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/), and
 Microsoft’s [ODBC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODBC). It supports the
 following operations:
 
-  - connect/disconnect to the DBMS
-  - create and execute statements in the DBMS
-  - extract results/output from statements
-  - error/exception handling
-  - information (meta-data) from database objects
-  - transaction management (optional)
+-   connect/disconnect to the DBMS
+-   create and execute statements in the DBMS
+-   extract results/output from statements
+-   error/exception handling
+-   information (meta-data) from database objects
+-   transaction management (optional)
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -50,14 +47,14 @@ Most users who want to access a database do not need to install DBI
 directly. It will be installed automatically when you install one of the
 database backends:
 
-  - [RPostgres](https://rpostgres.r-dbi.org) for PostgreSQL,
-  - [RMariaDB](https://rmariadb.r-dbi.org) for MariaDB or MySQL,
-  - [RSQLite](https://rsqlite.r-dbi.org) for SQLite,
-  - [odbc](https://github.com/r-dbi/odbc) for databases that you can
+-   [RPostgres](https://rpostgres.r-dbi.org) for PostgreSQL,
+-   [RMariaDB](https://rmariadb.r-dbi.org) for MariaDB or MySQL,
+-   [RSQLite](https://rsqlite.r-dbi.org) for SQLite,
+-   [odbc](https://github.com/r-dbi/odbc) for databases that you can
     access via
     [ODBC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity),
-  - [bigrquery](https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery),
-  - … .
+-   [bigrquery](https://github.com/r-dbi/bigrquery),
+-   … .
 
 You can install the released version of DBI from
 [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org) with:
@@ -139,34 +136,34 @@ dbDisconnect(con)
 There are four main DBI classes. Three which are each extended by
 individual database backends:
 
-  - `DBIObject`: a common base class for all DBI.
+-   `DBIObject`: a common base class for all DBI.
 
-  - `DBIDriver`: a base class representing overall DBMS properties.
+-   `DBIDriver`: a base class representing overall DBMS properties.
     Typically generator functions instantiate the driver objects like
     `RSQLite()`, `RPostgreSQL()`, `RMySQL()` etc.
 
-  - `DBIConnection`: represents a connection to a specific database
+-   `DBIConnection`: represents a connection to a specific database
 
-  - `DBIResult`: the result of a DBMS query or statement.
+-   `DBIResult`: the result of a DBMS query or statement.
 
 All classes are *virtual*: they cannot be instantiated directly and
 instead must be subclassed.
 
 ## Further Reading
 
-  - [Databases using R](http://db.rstudio.com/) describes the tools and
+-   [Databases using R](http://db.rstudio.com/) describes the tools and
     best practices in this ecosystem.
 
-  - The [DBI project site](https://www.r-dbi.org/) hosts a blog where
+-   The [DBI project site](https://www.r-dbi.org/) hosts a blog where
     recent developments are presented.
 
-  - [A history of
+-   [A history of
     DBI](https://r-dbi.github.io/DBI/articles/DBI-history.html) by David
     James, the driving force behind the development of DBI, and many of
     the packages that implement it.
 
------
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Please note that the *DBI* project is released with a [Contributor Code
-of Conduct](https://dbi.r-dbi.org/code_of_conduct). By contributing to this
-project, you agree to abide by its terms.
+of Conduct](https://dbi.r-dbi.org/code_of_conduct). By contributing to
+this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c5c9aae53..000000000
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# DO NOT CHANGE the "init" and "install" sections below
-
-# Download script file from GitHub
-init:
-  ps: |
-        $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
-        Invoke-WebRequest http://raw.github.com/krlmlr/r-appveyor/master/scripts/appveyor-tool.ps1 -OutFile "..\appveyor-tool.ps1"
-        Import-Module '..\appveyor-tool.ps1'
-
-install:
-  ps: Bootstrap
-
-# Adapt as necessary starting from here
-
-environment:
-  global:
-    WARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS: 1
-    PKGTYPE: binary
-
-  matrix:
-  - R_VERSION: devel
-    GCC_PATH: mingw_64
-    R_ARCH: x64
-
-build_script:
-  - travis-tool.sh install_deps
-
-test_script:
-  - travis-tool.sh run_tests
-
-on_failure:
-  - 7z a failure.zip *.Rcheck\*
-  - appveyor PushArtifact failure.zip
-
-artifacts:
-  - path: '*.Rcheck\**\*.log'
-    name: Logs
-
-  - path: '*.Rcheck\**\*.out'
-    name: Logs
-
-  - path: '*.Rcheck\**\*.fail'
-    name: Logs
-
-  - path: '*.Rcheck\**\*.Rout'
-    name: Logs
-
-  - path: '\*_*.tar.gz'
-    name: Bits
-
-  - path: '\*_*.zip'
-    name: Bits
diff --git a/tic.R b/tic.R
deleted file mode 100644
index fd7b64510..000000000
--- a/tic.R
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-do_package_checks(error_on = if (getRversion() >= "3.4") "note" else "warning")
-
-if (ci_has_env("DEV_VERSIONS")) {
-  get_stage("install") %>%
-    add_step(step_install_github(c("r-dbi/DBI", "r-dbi/RSQLite")))
-}
-
-# Build only for master or release branches
-if (ci_has_env("BUILD_PKGDOWN") && grepl("^master$|^r-|^docs$", ci_get_branch())) {
-  do_pkgdown(deploy = ci_can_push())
-}