gh_release_latest: Get latest release from GitHub repository

In salim-b/yay: Delightful Convenience Functions

Get latest release from GitHub repository

Description

Uses gh::gh() to fetch the latest GitHub release of the specified GitHub repository via GitHub's RESTful API and returns its metadata as a single-row tibble containing the columns id, version_nr, is_pre_release and is_draft.

Usage

gh_release_latest(owner, name)

Arguments

owner	GitHub repository owner (GitHub user or organisation). A character scalar.
name	Repository name. A character scalar.

Value

A tibble with the columns id, version_nr, is_pre_release, and is_draft.

See Also

Other GitHub functions: gh_dir_ls(), gh_releases(), gh_text_file(), gh_text_files()

Examples

yay::gh_release_latest(owner = "jgm",
                       name = "pandoc")

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