GitHub package installation and authentication

We will use GitHub API Version 3 for accessing the data. All the API access that happens is over HTTPS and it is accessed from the domain api.github.com or yourdomain.com/api/v3 for the enterprise accounts. All the data received will be in the JSON format.

Now that you know how to create a GitHub app, we will see how to proceed further towards accessing the data from R. In order to connect to the GitHub app, we need to install the rgithub package and other dependent packages like devtools. The devtools package is required so that we can install the latest rgithub package directly from the source.

require(devtools)
install_github("cscheid/rgithub")
library(github)

After the installation and loading the required packages in R, we can use the client ID and the client secret that were generated to authenticate the access. In the following example, we are first passing the client ID and the client secret to a variable and then using the function...