Find GH username from repository and full name

Look up users of a repository and match to a name. Try with and without initials.

Usage

gh_user(name, owner = "ropensci", pkg, .max_rate = NULL)

Arguments

name

Character. Full or partial name of the person for whom you want to fetch the GitHub username.

owner

Character. Owner of the repository.

pkg

Character. Repository name (package name).

.max_rate

Numeric. Passed through to gh:gh().

Value

Data frame with names attempted and usernames found

Examples

gh_user(name = "Steffi E. LaZerte", owner = "ropensci", pkg = "weathercan")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 2
#>   name           gh_user      
#>   <chr>          <chr>        
#> 1 Steffi LaZerte steffilazerte
gh_user(name = "Steffi", owner = "ropensci", pkg = "weathercan")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 2
#>   name   gh_user      
#>   <chr>  <chr>        
#> 1 Steffi steffilazerte