Tools for working with Github and Github Actions from R.
This repo is still in early development and may substantially change.
The full functionality requires that you have git and Github cli installed and that the binaries are on your path.
Before using all functions, you must perform two steps:
- Set your Personal Access Token [https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token] using the
gh_set_patfunction. For example, if you stored the PAT in a simple text filemypat.txt(not secure), you could write:
pat = readLines("~/mypat.txt")
gh_set_pat(pat)
The gh package allows a more secure way to authorize, but I have not yet implemented it. So make sure nobody has access to the file in which you store your PAT.
- Login
Afterwards you should login with your email adress and username using the function gh_login.
GithubActions contains several helper functions, not all yet well documented. (As I said the package is work in progress and developed mainly for internal use.)
Some functions call git or gh from the command line. They typically take repodir as argument, which is the path to your local repositor.
Other function use the Github REST API and typically take the repo in format username/reponame as argument.