Use the gh package?

[hadley]

I'd highly recommend switching to the gh package since it takes care of many detail that you'll otherwise need to do yourself. Most importantly, we're gradually moving away from storing the GITHUB_PAT in an environment variable, and instead storing it in a secure credential store: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/12/usethis-2-0-0/#personal-access-tokens-pats.