R Observatory: Metrics for gh version 1.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gh

1.6.1Package record

'GitHub' 'API'

29packages dependsuggested by 21

3Mdownloads / year

71.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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

Changes in 1.6.1

The pagination progress bar now reports the real number of records an endpoint holds, even when .limit is set to a large finite value (#239).

From NEWS.md in the release

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

Earlier advisories (1)Hide earlier advisories (1)

RSEC-2025-0Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) Vulnerability
1.1.0 to 1.4.1, fixed in 1.5.0, 2025-07-31, CVE-2025-54956 Low 3.2

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.1

READMEYes · 434 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check (6 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Managing Personal Access Tokens HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #237 · ~8.3K/day · ~253.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

185.1K30 days

566.9K90 days

3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on120.1K r2u130 autocran229.8K conda_forge2.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/gh ↗Organization: r-lib

232Stars

57Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

481Commits

28Commit identities

rgithubgithub-api

481 commits · Last activity 2026-09-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.6.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 42
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-19 · 2262026-07-07 · 232

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/gh on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductCODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-20

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gh adds 16 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

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 →

Reverse dependencies

29direct

183indirect

Imports 29

Suggested by 21

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

desc testthat devtools RSQLite sessioninfo modelsummary tinytable otelsdk pandoc pkgdepends nflreadr btw wehoop animint2 allofus icons FishPhyloMaker OmopStudyBuilder dpkg

and 2 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Gábor Csárdi

Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2017), Contributor

Jennifer Bryan

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author

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

Releases (11)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.6.1Latest
record
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.0
record
2025-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
fake_github_app
1.5.0
record
2025-05-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gh_token_exists
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.1◆
record
2024-03-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.0◆
record
2023-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
gh_rate_limits
1.3.1◆
record
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◆
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2021-04-30 · diff ↗
1.2.1◆
record
2021-04-01 · diff ↗
1.2.0◆
record
2020-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
slugify_url

added 1 export
gh_rate_limit
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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1.1.0◆
record
2020-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
gh_gql, gh_token, slugify_url
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.1
record
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: 62 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("gh")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Bryan, J., & Wickham, H. (2026). gh: 'GitHub' 'API' (Version 1.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gh

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gh version 1.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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