Retrieve information about a github repo — get_repo

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

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

Arguments

repo_name: The full name of the repo to get bookdown chapters from. e.g. "jhudsl/OTTR_Template"
token: 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().
verbose: TRUE/FALSE do you want more progress messages?

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

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

repo_info <- get_repo_info("jhudsl/Documentation_and_Usability")
} # }