Get the tags of GitHub releases of a repository

Use the GitHub API (github_api()) to obtain the tags of the releases.

github_releases(
  repo,
  tag = "",
  pattern = "v[0-9.]+",
  use_jsonlite = loadable("jsonlite")
)

Arguments

repo: The repository name of the form user/repo, e.g., "yihui/xfun".
tag: A tag as a character string. If provided, it will be returned if the tag exists. If tag = "latest", the tag of the latest release is returned.
pattern: A regular expression to match the tags.
use_jsonlite: Whether to use jsonlite to parse the releases info.

A character vector of (GIT) tags.

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
xfun::github_releases("yihui/xfun")
xfun::github_releases("gohugoio/hugo")
}