https://github.com/hadley/r-on-github

An exploration of R code and package on github, using the github search and repo apis
https://github.com/hadley/r-on-github

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An exploration of R code and package on github, using the github search and repo apis

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hadley/r-on-github
• Owner: hadley
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-07-25T17:50:05.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-10-30T16:48:04.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-01T10:43:11.474Z (5 months ago)
• Language: R
• Size: 17.4 MB
• Stars: 54
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 15
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# R on github

This project uses githubs code and repository api to collect information about 

all github repositories that use R.

## Getting the data

Getting all repo data is a two step process:

* `1a-search.r` runs searches to find all R language repos. Searches are done by

  month to overcome the current search API limits, and are cached in the 

  `cache/` directory

* `1b-repos.r` takes each repo found by the search and creates a list with 5 

   components:

  * `info`: general information about the repository. 

    http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get

  

  * `lng`: languages used in the repo. 

    http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages

    

  * `dir`: a directory listing of all files and directories in the repo root.

    http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-contents

  

  * `desc`: if a `DESCRIPTION` file is found, the result of parsing that

    file with `read.dcf` and converting into a list

    

  * `tags`: any tags used by the repo. 

     http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-tags

  

  The data on each repo is cached in `cache-repo/`.

  

To update repos for the current month, `source("1a-search.r")`, then 

`source("1b-repos.r")`. You'll need to set your github user name and password

into environment variables `GITHUB_USER` and `GITHUB_PASS`. All requests are

appropriately throttled to stay within github's rate limits - this means that 

downloading all repo info from scratch will take a number of hours.

## Exploring the data

If you just want to use the already cached data, see `2-languages.r` and 

`2-packages.r` for example exploratory analyses.