devtools (version 0.7.1)

source_gist: Run a script on gist

Description

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository. https://gist.github.com/

Usage

source_gist(entry, ...)

Arguments

entry

either full url (character), gist ID (numeric or character of numeric). If only an entry ID is specified and the entry has multiple code block, the first entry is sourced.

...

other options passed to source

Details

A gist entry can have multiple code blocks (one file for one block). Gist is based on git, which means gist has commit histories (i.e., revisions). You can specify a commit by giving SHA.

Examples

source_gist(1654919)
source_gist("1654919")
source_gist("https://gist.github.com/1654919")
source_gist("gist.github.com/1654919")
source_gist("https://raw.github.com/gist/1654919/8161f74fb0ec26d1ba9fd54473a96f768ed76f56/test2.r")

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