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GitHub API rate limit #10

Open jennybc opened 5 years ago

jennybc commented 5 years ago

Depending on the wifi arrangement, it's entirely possible that we all appear to coming from a single IP address.

This can cause trouble for, e.g. devtools::install_github(), because we can quickly hit the API's rate limit. The solutions that are definitely under our control

Only install from CRAN
Have users set up a GitHub PAT, which will be picked up and sent in their requests.

colearendt commented 5 years ago

Another possible solution - put RStudio Package Manager (RSPM) in as an intermediary and point it at the github repositories to build / track latest commits, etc. (it polls and automatically builds updated versions of the packages). Then just point repos at RSPM and install as if it were CRAN