coerce-git_repository-method {git2r} | R Documentation

## Coerce Git repository to a `data.frame`

### Description

The commits in the repository are coerced to a `data.frame`

### Arguments

`from` | The repository `object`

### Details

The `data.frame` have the following columns:

sha

  The 40 character hexadecimal string of the SHA-1

summary

  the short "summary" of the git commit message.

message

  the full message of a commit

author

  full name of the author

email

  email of the author

when

  time when the commit happened

### Value

`data.frame`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    ## Initialize a temporary repository
    path <- tempfile(pattern="git2r-")
    dir.create(path)
    repo <- init(path)

    ## Create a user
    config(repo, user.name="Alice", user.email="alice@example.org")

    ## Create three files and commit
    writeLines("First file",  file.path(path, "example-1.txt"))
    writeLines("Second file", file.path(path, "example-2.txt"))
    writeLines("Third file",  file.path(path, "example-3.txt"))
    add(repo, "example-1.txt")
    commit(repo, "Commit first file")
    add(repo, "example-2.txt")
    commit(repo, "Commit second file")
    add(repo, "example-3.txt")
    commit(repo, "Commit third file")

    ## Coerce commits to a data.frame
    df <- as(repo, "data.frame")
    df

    ## End(Not run)

[Package git2r version 0.16.0 Index]