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About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2017-07-1611 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Minimal client to access the 'GitHub' 'API'.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("gh", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lib/gh")

Development version from r-lib/gh. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-gh

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-gh

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-gh

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.60

71.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 434 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #229 · ~9.1K/day · ~278K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

211.9K30 days

683K90 days

3.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on85.8K r2u167 autocran215.7K conda_forge1.2K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/gh

232Stars

57Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

478Commits

28Contributors

rgithubgithub-api

478 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-08 · 2232026-07-07 · 232

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/gh on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cli gitcreds glue httr2 ini jsonlite lifecycle rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

connectcreds covr knitr rmarkdown rprojroot spelling testthat vctrs webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (2)

Jennifer Bryan

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

Contributors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Maintainer, Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.1

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.4.0

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.6.1Latest
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
1.6.0
2026-05-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.0
2025-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.1
2024-03-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.0
2023-02-22 · diff ↗
1.3.1
2022-09-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.3.0
2021-04-30 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2021-04-01 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2020-11-27 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Show 5 earlier events

1.1.0
2020-01-24 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.1
2017-07-16
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-16
Total releases: 11 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 45 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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