Closed sdebruyn closed 3 years ago
Could you help me understand how this works? Why does this avoid the GitHub download limit?
Remotes seems to use the GitHub API to download and inspect files when you specify the repo as "github". When you mark the remote as a git repository, it should clone it as a regular repository and you not use the API (thus not triggering the rate limit and avoiding the need for a PAT). https://remotes.r-lib.org/reference/install_git.html#examples
I'm still testing this. I'll confirm when it works.
Does not seem to work
Extends upon #5
This uses git as remotes so that you don't run into rate limiting issues and avoids the need for a GitHub PAT token.