gistr (version 0.4.0)

gist: Get a gist

Description

Get a gist

Usage

gist(id, ...)
as.gist(x)

Arguments

id

(character) A gist id, or a gist URL

...

Curl options passed on to GET

x

Object to coerce. Can be an integer (gist id), string (gist id), a gist, or an list that can be coerced to a gist.

Details

If a file is larger than ~1 MB, the content of the file given back is truncated, so you won't get the entire contents. In the return S3 object that's printed, we tell you at the bottom whether each file is truncated or not. If a file is, simply get the raw_url URL for the file (see example below), then retrieve from that. If the file is very big, you may need to clone the file using git, etc.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
gist('f1403260eb92f5dfa7e1')

as.gist('f1403260eb92f5dfa7e1')
as.gist(10)
as.gist(gist('f1403260eb92f5dfa7e1'))

# from a url, or partial url
x <- "https://gist.github.com/expersso/4ac33b9c00751fddc7f8"
x <- "gist.github.com/expersso/4ac33b9c00751fddc7f8"
x <- "gist.github.com/4ac33b9c00751fddc7f8"
x <- "expersso/4ac33b9c00751fddc7f8"
as.gist(x)

ids <- sapply(gists(), "[[", "id")
gist(ids[1])
gist(ids[2])
gist(ids[3])
gist(ids[4])

gist(ids[1]) %>% browse()

## If a gist file is > a certain size it is truncated
## in this case, we let you know in the return object that it is truncated
## e.g.
(bigfile <- gist(id = "b74b878fd7d9176a4c52"))
## then get the raw_url, and retrieve the file
url <- bigfile$files$`plossmall.json`$raw_url
# httr::GET(url)
# }