interactive.login opens a web browser, asks for your username+password, performs the OAuth dance, retrieves the token, and uses it to create a github context.
interactive.login(client_id = NULL, client_secret = NULL, scopes = NULL,
base_url = "https://github.com", api_url = "https://api.github.com",
max_etags = 10000, verbose = FALSE)the github client ID
the github client secret
the OAuth scopes you want to request
the base URL for the github webpage. Change this in GitHub Enterprise deployments to your base G.E. URL
the base URL for the github API. Change this in GitHub Enterprise deployments to your base G.E. API URL
the maximum number of entries to cache in the context
logical, passed to create.github.context and,
ultimately, to httr configuration
a github context object that is used in every github API call issued by this library.
If you use rgithub interactively, then you will get a default client ID and client secret that you can use. Please don't abuse that, or the feature might need to be removed.
Refer to http://developer.github.com/guides/basics-of-authentication/