The goal of gitissues is to create a data frame that summarizes issues opened on GitHub repositories.
You can gitissues from with:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("maggieklope/gitissues")
This is a basic example which shows you how to create a data frame of issues for a repo:
# get_issues(github_api_endpoint = "/repos/owner/repo/issues",
# url = "https:://api.github.com",
# repo_owner = "owner",
# repo_name = "repo",
# PAT = "pat")