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GITHUB_PAT for R #887

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fizwit opened this issue Jul 7, 2023 · 0 comments
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GITHUB_PAT for R #887

fizwit opened this issue Jul 7, 2023 · 0 comments
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fizwit commented Jul 7, 2023

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User Installed packages with devtools::install_github()
Github is getting picky about anonymous downloads. install_github() can produce this error.

API rate limit exceeded for 140.107.222.79. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)

Solution, user needs to generate a github token. https://github.com/settings/tokens
Do we have best practices for storing GitHub tokens? I keep min in ~/.ssh

~/.Rprofile
GITHUB_PAT=ghp_...

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@fizwit fizwit added the new content New content to be synthesized and contributed about a specific topic label Jul 7, 2023
@laderast laderast self-assigned this May 2, 2024
@laderast laderast added the doc-a-thon Great issues for Wiki Doc-A-Thon contributors label May 9, 2024
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