get_repo_info: Retrieve information about a github repo

In jhudsl/cow: Course Organizer and Wrangler

Retrieve information about a github repo

Description

Given an repository on GitHub, retrieve the information about it from the GitHub API and read it into R.

Usage

get_repo_info(repo_name, git_pat = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

repo_name	The full name of the repo to get bookdown chapters from. e.g. "jhudsl/OTTR_Template"
git_pat	If private repositories are to be retrieved, a github personal access token needs to be supplied. If none is supplied, then this will attempt to grab from a git pat set in the environment with usethis::create_github_token(). Authorization handled by get_git_auth
verbose	TRUE/FALSE do you want more progress messages?

Value

a data frame with the repository with the following columns: data_level, data_path, chapt_name, url, repository name

Examples

repo_info <- get_repo_info("jhudsl/Documentation_and_Usability")

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