get_repo_metrics: Retrieve Metrics of a GitHub Repo

In thomas-neitmann/ghstars: Retrieve GitHub Stars for any Repository

Description

Retrieve the current number of stars, forks, watchers and open issues of a GitHub repository

Usage

get_repo_metrics(repo)

get_pkg_metrics(pkg)

Arguments

repo	character. Repository name(s) in the form user/reponame
pkg	character. Name of an R package.

Details

get_pkg_metrics() is a shortcut for retrieving the metrics of an R package. The function tries to find the GitHub repository of the package. If it succeeds it continues calling get_repo_metrics(). If it fails either a warning or an error is thrown depending on whether a GitHub repo couldn't be found for some or all pkg, respectively.

Value

An object of class c("ghmetrics_tbl", "data.frame") with 2 columns:

• repo Name of the repository

• stars Number of stars

• forks Number of forks

• watcher Number of watchers

• open_issues Number of open issue

Author(s)

Thomas Neitmann

Examples

## Not run: 
get_repo_metrics("thomas-neitmann/mdthemes")

get_pkg_metrics(c("Rcpp", "scales"))

## End(Not run)

thomas-neitmann/ghstars documentation built on June 7, 2020, 4:12 a.m.