github_releases: Get the tags of Github releases of a repository

In xfun: Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

Get the tags of Github releases of a repository

Description

Use the Github API (github_api()) to obtain the tags of the releases.

Usage

github_releases(
  repo,
  tag = "",
  pattern = "v[0-9.]+",
  use_jsonlite = loadable("jsonlite")
)

Arguments

repo	The repository name of the form user/repo, e.g., "yihui/xfun".
tag	A tag as a character string. If provided, it will be returned if the tag exists. If tag = "latest", the tag of the latest release is returned.
pattern	A regular expression to match the tags.
use_jsonlite	Whether to use jsonlite to parse the releases info.

Value

A character vector of (GIT) tags.

Examples

xfun::github_releases("yihui/xfun")
xfun::github_releases("gohugoio/hugo")

xfun documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 6 p.m.