Load TidyTuesday data from Github — tt_load_gh • tidytuesdayR

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

Usage

tt_load_gh(x, week = NULL, auth = gh::gh_token())

Arguments

x: The date of data to pull (in "YYYY-MM-dd" format), or the four-digit year as a number.
week: Which week number to use within a given year. Only used when x is a valid year.
auth: A GitHub token. See gh::gh_token() for more details.

Value

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

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# check to make sure there are requests still available
if (rate_limit_check(quiet = TRUE) > 30) {
  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"
  )
}
}