Search GitHub for all standalone-*.R files and filter to only
include repositories that are R packages (contain a DESCRIPTION file in
their root directory). Results are returned as a tibble with file and
repository metadata.
Arguments
- per_page
Number of items to return per page. If omitted, will be substituted by max(.limit, 100) if .limit is set, otherwise determined by the API (never greater than 100).
- limit
Number of records to return. This can be used instead of manual pagination. By default it is NULL, which means that the defaults of the GitHub API are used. You can set it to a number to request more (or less) records, and also to Inf to request all records. Note, that if you request many records, then multiple GitHub API calls are used to get them, and this can take a potentially long time.
- ...
pass to
gh::gh()
Value
A tibble with columns:
- repo
Character. Repository identifier in "owner/repo" format.
- name
Character. File name (e.g. "standalone-utils.R").
- path
Character. File path within the repository (e.g. "R/standalone-utils.R").
- sha
Character. File SHA.
- url
Character. GitHub API URL for the file.
- html_url
Character. GitHub HTML URL for the file.
- git_url
Character. Git blob URL for the file.
- repo_url
Character. Repository URL on GitHub.
- repo_description
Character. Repository description from GitHub.
Details
This function uses the GitHub Code Search API
(GET /search/code) to find all files matching the pattern
standalone-*.R across all public repositories. It then checks each
unique repository for the presence of a DESCRIPTION file in the
repository root, confirming it is an R package. Only files from R package
repositories are returned.
GitHub Search API returns at most 1,000 results, which covers the vast majority of standalone files on GitHub.
Note
Requires GitHub API authentication via the gh package.
Run gh::gh_whoami() to check your current authentication status.
Unauthenticated requests are subject to strict rate limits (60 requests/hour).