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Create a gist from an R object

Source: R/gist_create_obj.R
gist_create_obj.Rd

Create a gist from an R object

Usage

gist_create_obj(
  x = NULL,
  description = "",
  public = TRUE,
  browse = TRUE,
  pretty = TRUE,
  filename = "file.txt",
  ...
)

Arguments

x

An R object, any of data.frame, matrix, list, character, numeric

description

(character) Brief description of gist (optional)

public

(logical) Whether gist is public (default: TRUE)

browse

(logical) To open newly create gist in default browser (default: TRUE)

pretty

(logical) For data.frame and matrix objects, create a markdown table. If FALSE, pushes up json. (default: TRUE)

filename

Name of the file to create. Default: file.txt

...

Further args passed on to crul::verb-POST

Details

This function is specifically for going from R objects to a gist, whereas gist_create() is for going from files or executing code

See also

gist_create(), gist_create_git()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## data.frame
### by default makes pretty table in markdown format
row.names(mtcars) <- NULL
gist_create_obj(mtcars)
gist_create_obj(iris)
### or just push up json
gist_create_obj(mtcars, pretty = FALSE)

## matrix
gist_create_obj(as.matrix(mtcars))
## list
gist_create_obj(apply(mtcars, 1, as.list))
## character
gist_create_obj("hello, world")
## numeric
gist_create_obj(runif(10))

## Assign a specific file name
gist_create_obj("
## header2

hey there!", filename = "my_markdown.md")
}