Load TidyTuesday data from Github

Source: R/tt_load_gh.R

Pulls the readme and URLs of the data from the TidyTuesday github folder based on the date provided

tt_load_gh(x, week, auth = github_pat())

Arguments

x

string representation of the date of data to pull, in YYYY-MM-dd format, or just numeric entry for year
week

left empty unless x is a numeric year entry, in which case the week of interest should be entered
auth

github Personal Access Token. See PAT section for more information

Value

a 'tt' object. This contains the files available for the week, readme html, and the date of the TidyTuesday.

PAT

A Github PAT is a personal Access Token. This allows for signed queries to the github api, and increases the limit on the number of requests allowed from 60 to 5000. Follow instructions from <https://happygitwithr.com/github-pat.html> to set the PAT.

Examples


# check to make sure there are requests still available
if(rate_limit_check(quiet = TRUE) > 10){
 tt_gh <- tt_load_gh("2019-01-15")

 ## readme attempts to open the readme for the weekly dataset
 readme(tt_gh)

 agencies <- tt_download(
    tt_gh,
    files = "agencies.csv"
 )


}

#> --- Compiling #TidyTuesday Information for 2019-01-15 ----
#> --- There are 2 files available ---
#> --- Starting Download ---
#> 
#> 	Downloading file 1 of 1: `agencies.csv`
#> 
#> --- Download complete ---