• repo_add_file - Add / update files in a GitHub repository. Note that due to time delays in caching, files that have been added very recently might not yet be displayed as existing and might accidentally be overwritten.

  • repo_delete_file - Delete a file from a Github repository

  • repo_modify_file - Modify an existing file within a GitHub repository.

  • repo_ls - Low level function for listing the files in a GitHub Repository

  • repo_put_file - Low level function for adding a file to a Github repository

  • repo_get_file - Low level function for retrieving the content of a file from a GitHub Repository

  • repo_get_readme - Low level function for retrieving the content of the README.md of a GitHub Repository

repo_add_file(
  repo,
  file,
  message = NULL,
  repo_folder = NULL,
  branch = "master",
  preserve_path = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE
)

repo_delete_file(repo, path, message = NULL, branch = "master")

repo_get_file(
  repo,
  path,
  branch = "master",
  quiet = FALSE,
  include_details = TRUE
)

repo_get_readme(repo, branch = "master", include_details = TRUE)

repo_ls(repo, path = ".", branch = "master", full_path = FALSE)

repo_modify_file(
  repo,
  path,
  pattern,
  content,
  method = c("replace", "before", "after"),
  all = FALSE,
  message = "Modified content",
  branch = "master"
)

repo_put_file(
  repo,
  path,
  content,
  message = NULL,
  branch = "master",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

repo

Character. Address of repository in owner/name format.

file

Character. Local file path(s) of file or files to be added.

message

Character. Commit message.

repo_folder

Character. Name of folder on repository to save the file(s) to. If the folder does not exist on the repository, it will be created.

branch

Character. Name of branch to use, defaults to "master".

preserve_path

Logical. Should the local relative path be preserved.

overwrite

Logical. Should existing file or files with same name be overwritten, defaults to FALSE.

path

Character. File's path within the repository.

quiet

Logical. Should status messages be printed.

include_details

Logical. Should file details be attached as attributes.

full_path

Logical. Should the function return the full path of the files and directories.

pattern

Character. Regex pattern.

content

Character or raw. Content of the file.

method

Character. Should the content replace the matched pattern or be inserted before or after the match.

all

Character. Should all instances of the pattern be modified (TRUE) or just the first (FALSE).

verbose

Logical. Should success / failure messages be printed

Examples

if (FALSE) { repo = repo_create("ghclass-test", "repo_file_test", auto_init=TRUE) repo_ls(repo, path = ".") repo_get_readme(repo, include_details = FALSE) repo_get_file(repo, ".gitignore", include_details = FALSE) repo_modify_file( repo, path = "README.md", pattern = "repo_file_test", content = "\n\nHello world!\n", method = "after" ) repo_get_readme(repo, include_details = FALSE) repo_add_file(repo, file = system.file("DESCRIPTION", package="ghclass")) repo_get_file(repo, "DESCRIPTION", include_details = FALSE) repo_delete_file(repo, "DESCRIPTION") repo_delete(repo, prompt=FALSE) }