Connect a local repo with GitHub

use_github() takes a local project, creates an associated repo on GitHub, adds it to your local repo as the origin remote, and makes an initial push to synchronize. use_github() requires that your project already be a Git repository, which you can accomplish with use_git(), if needed. See the Authentication section below for other necessary setup.

use_github(organisation = NULL, private = FALSE,
  protocol = git_protocol(), credentials = NULL,
  auth_token = github_token(), host = NULL)

Arguments

organisation	If supplied, the repo will be created under this organisation, instead of the account of the user associated with the auth_token. You must have permission to create repositories.
private	If TRUE, creates a private repository.
protocol	Optional. Should be "ssh" or "https", if specified. Defaults to the option usethis.protocol and, if unset, to an interactive choice or, in non-interactive sessions, "ssh". NA triggers the interactive menu.
credentials	A git2r credential object produced with git2r::cred_env(), git2r::cred_ssh_key(), git2r::cred_token(), or git2r::cred_user_pass().
auth_token	GitHub personal access token (PAT).
host	GitHub API host to use. Override with the endpoint-root for your GitHub enterprise instance, for example, "https://github.hostname.com/api/v3".

Authentication

A new GitHub repo will be created via the GitHub API, therefore you must make a GitHub personal access token (PAT) available. You can either provide this directly via the auth_token argument or store it for retrieval with github_token().

Examples

if (FALSE) {
pkgpath <- file.path(tempdir(), "testpkg")
create_package(pkgpath) # creates package below temp directory
proj_set(pkgpath)

## now, working inside "testpkg", initialize git repository
use_git()

## create github repository and configure as git remote
use_github()
}