How we got this:

Load libraries

library(purrr)
library(ggplot2)
library(gh)
library(tidyr)
library(svglite)

Define the GitHub repos

repos <- c(
  'yonicd/carbonate',
  'yonicd/noplyr',
  'yonicd/shinyHeatmaply',
  'yonicd/Elections',
  'yonicd/covrpage',
  'yonicd/rpdf',
  'yonicd/rsam',
  'yonicd/regexSelect',
  'yonicd/tidycheckUsage',
  'yonicd/ripe',
  'yonicd/lmmen',
  'metrumresearchgroup/ggedit',
  'metrumresearchgroup/sinew',
  'metrumresearchgroup/slickR',
  'metrumresearchgroup/d3Tree',
  'metrumresearchgroup/texPreview',
  'metrumresearchgroup/jsTree',
  'metrumresearchgroup/shinyCanvas',
  'metrumresearchgroup/vcs'  
)

Define Functions

fetch_view_type <- function(owner,repo,type,gh_pat){
  
  this_dat <- gh::gh(
                '/repos/:owner/:repo/traffic/:type',
                owner  = owner,
                repo   = repo,
                type   = type,
                .token = gh_pat)
  
  
  if(length(this_dat[[type]])==0)
    return(NULL)
  
  ret <- this_dat[[type]]%>%
    purrr::transpose()%>%
    dplyr::as_tibble()%>%
    dplyr::mutate(
      timestamp = as.Date(gsub('T(.*?)$','',purrr::flatten_chr(timestamp))),
      count  = purrr::flatten_dbl(count),
      uniques  = purrr::flatten_dbl(uniques),
      repo = repo
    )
  
  ret
}

fetch_view_data <- function(repo, gh_pat){
  
  types <- dplyr::data_frame(type = c('views','clones'))

  ret <- purrr::map_df(
    types$type,
    fetch_view_type,
    gh_pat = gh_pat,
    owner  = dirname(repo),
    repo   = basename(repo),
    .id    = 'type'
    )%>%
    dplyr::mutate(
      type = dplyr::case_when(
        type==1~'views',
        type==2~'clones'
        )
    )

  return(ret)
}

Run the function

x <- repos%>%
  purrr::map_df(
    fetch_view_data, 
    gh_pat = Sys.getenv('GITHUB_PAT')
  )

Waffle heatmap

plot_traffic <- function(dat){
  dat %>%
    tidyr::gather(
      key   = 'stat',
      value = 'value',
      count,
      uniques
      )%>%
    ggplot2::ggplot(
      ggplot2::aes(
        x    = timestamp,
        y    = repo,
        fill = value
        )
      ) +
    ggplot2::geom_tile(
      colour = 'white',
      width  = 0.95,
      alpha  = 0.75) +
    ggplot2::geom_hline(
      yintercept = c(0,(1:length(unique(dat$repo))) + 0.5),
      colour     = 'grey90') +
    viridis::scale_fill_viridis(
      name      = 'Count',
      direction = -1
      ) +
    ggplot2::facet_grid( . ~ stat ) +
    ggplot2::theme_minimal() +
    ggplot2::theme(
      panel.grid.major  = ggplot2::element_blank(),
      axis.text.x       = ggplot2::element_text(angle=90),
      panel.grid.minor  = ggplot2::element_blank(),
      axis.title        = ggplot2::element_blank()
      )
}

Save to disk

svglite::svglite(
  file.path(getwd(),'public/img/github_traffic.svg'),
  standalone = TRUE
  )
  
plot_traffic(x)

dev.off()