R package provides access to Github REST API

[earowang]

It might be of interest to analyse some issue data related to a project repo host on Github. For example, who's the active user to report bugs on tidyverse/ggplot2? or what's the average time to fix an issue?

We could create an R package to access this data through Github REST API. This blog post has already provided a good start.

[PeteHaitch]

A brief example of these type of queries (from R via jsonlite) is given https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jsonlite/vignettes/json-apis.html

[adam-gruer]

May I suggest a fun and useful repo's issues to begin with :
(https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/ozunconf17/issues)