GitHub-API function

GitHub API

R Interface to the GitHub API v3.

github_commits(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence", branch = "master", n = 5)

github_branches(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence")

github_issues(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

• user: character (with default): GitHub user name (defaults to 'r-lum').
• repo: character (with default): name of a GitHub repository (defaults to 'luminescence').
• branch: character (with default): branch of a GitHub repository (defaults to 'master').
• n: integer (with default): number of commits returned (defaults to 5).
• verbose: logical (with default): enable/disable output to the terminal.

Returns

github_commits: data.frame with columns:

[ ,1]	SHA
[ ,2]	AUTHOR
[ ,3]	DATE
[ ,4]	MESSAGE

github_branches: data.frame with columns:

[ ,1]	BRANCH
[ ,2]	SHA
[ ,3]	INSTALL

github_commits: Nested list with n elements. Each commit element is a list with elements:

[[1]]	NUMBER
[[2]]	TITLE
[[3]]	BODY
[[4]]	CREATED
[[5]]	UPDATED
[[6]]	CREATOR
[[7]]	URL
[[8]]	STATUS

Details

These functions can be used to query a specific repository hosted on GitHub.

github_commits lists the most recent n commits of a specific branch of a repository.

github_branches can be used to list all current branches of a repository and returns the corresponding SHA hash as well as an installation command to install the branch in R via the 'devtools' package.

github_issues lists all open issues for a repository in valid YAML.

Function version

0.1.0

Examples

## Not run:

github_branches(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence")
github_issues(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence")
github_commits(user = "r-lum", repo = "luminescence", branch = "master", n = 10)
## End(Not run)

How to cite

Burow, C., 2025. GitHub-API(): GitHub API. Function version 0.1.0. In: Kreutzer, S., Burow, C., Dietze, M., Fuchs, M.C., Schmidt, C., Fischer, M., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., Philippe, A., Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., Mittelstrass, D., Gray, H.J., Galharret, J., Colombo, M., Steinbuch, L., Boer, A.d., 2025. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.0.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/

References

GitHub Developer API v3. https://docs.github.com/v3/, last accessed: 10/01/2017.

Author(s)

Christoph Burow, University of Cologne (Germany) , RLum Developer Team