NEWS.md

echogithub 1.0.0

Bug fixes

• Fix data.table recycling warning in r_repos_data.
• Remove data.table::setDTthreads(threads = 1) from .onLoad() that silently throttled data.table performance for the entire R session.
• Fix Rd formatting and \dontrun{} example guards.
• Add Rplots.pdf and *.tbi to .gitignore.

echogithub 0.99.5

Bug fixes

• Local R CMD check fixes and compatibility updates.

echogithub 0.99.4

New features

• New function github_dependents_scrape.
• Standardize rworkflows.yml with canonical template: enable Docker on ghcr.io, set write-all permissions, use GITHUB_TOKEN, add devel/RELEASE_** branch triggers.

Bug fixes

• Remove deprecated get_github_url.
• Refactor github_dependents and update github_files_download.
• Sync documentation with devtools::document().

echogithub 0.99.3

Bug fixes

• github_branches
  • Handle repos with more than 100 branches.
• github_files_download
  • Can now download files in private repos.

echogithub 0.99.2

New features

• Replace functions that have since been offloaded and improved in rworkflows
  • echogithub::description_find --> rworkflows::get_description
  • echogithub::github_hex --> rworkflows::get_hex
  • echogithub::readme_header --> rworkflows::use_badges
• r_repos_data
  • Add new arg add_hex to find hex URL with rworkflows::get_hex.
• r_repos
  • New arg queries
• New functions:
  • github_user_events
• Expose .limit arg wherever relevant.

Bug fixes

• github_dependents
  • Gather deps from all pages (not just the first one).
• description_authors
  • Fix to handle more complex situations without explicit naming of each field.
• r_repos_data
  • Add a check for find R packages that are on GitHub but just not available via githubinstall (which is a lot, since it became outdated years ago).

echogithub 0.99.1

New features

• New GitHub functions:
  • github_permissions
  • github_metadata
  • github_commits
  • github_traffic
  • github_dependents
  • github_dependencies
• New functions for finding which repos R packages are in:
  • r_repos
  • r_repos_data
  • r_repos_downloads
  • r_repos_opts
• Added more robust func to get GH url: get_github_url()

Bug fixes

• Elevate rvest to Imports.
• Add parallel to Imports.
• r_repos_downloads_bioc / r_repos_downloads_cran
  • Split queries into batches to prevent issues requesting with too many packages at once.
  • Parallelise.

echogithub 0.99.0

New features

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Moved all GitHub-related functions from echodata to echogithub.
• New function: github_branches:
  • Automatically infers owner/repo/branches.
  • Automatically translates main/master to the correct synonym.

Bug fixes

• Switched to using gh instead of httr to avoid API limits imposed by GitHub.
  • Kept httr as alternative method.
• is_url:
  • Add RCurl::url.exists check.