Source a file hosted in a pubic or private GitHub repo — source_github • amc

Source a file hosted in a pubic or private GitHub repo

source_github(repo, branch = "master", file, auth = Sys.getenv("GITHUB_PAT"))

Arguments

repo: Name of the GitHub repository in the form "user/repo".
branch: Branch from which to source the file (default master).
file: Filename to source, including relative path.
auth: Personal Access Token to use for authorization. Required to access files in private repositories. By default, checks for GITHUB_PAT environment variable. See https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/.

Author

Alex Chubaty

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
repo = "PredictiveEcology/SpaDES"
branch = "development"
file = "_ignore/thinSpatialPolygons.R"
auth = "" ## your Personal Access Token

source_github(repo, branch, file, auth)
} # }