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archivist.github (version 0.2.6)

authoriseGitHub: Authorise with GitHub API

Description

authoriseGitHub is function that performes OAuth authorisation with GitHub API and stores resulting token in the github_token variable. In order to authorise your app you need ClinetID and ClientSecret. They can be found here: https://github.com/settings/applications/new

Usage

authoriseGitHub(ClientID, ClientSecret, scope = c("public_repo"))

Arguments

ClientID

A 20 characters long string with Client ID. See https://github.com/settings/applications/ for more details.

ClientSecret

A 40 characters long string with Client Secret. See https://github.com/settings/applications/ for more details.

scope

A character vector with the list of availables scopes for the GitHub API token. See https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes. For repository deletion you will need to add "delete_repo" scope.

References

More about archivist.github can be found on marcinkosinski.github.io/archivist.github/ and about archivist in posts' history on https://pbiecek.github.io/archivist/articles/posts.html

See Also

Other archivist.github: archive, archivist.github-package, cloneGitHubRepo, createGitHubRepo, deleteGitHubRepo, pushGitHubRepo

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
## GitHub version
authoriseGitHub(ClientID, ClientSecret) -> github_token
# }

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