eating-a-repo-reference" class="anchor"></a>Creating a Repo Reference</h2>
<p>The first step to interacting with a GitHub repository is creating a
repository reference. Repository references are “first class citizens”
in <code>projmgr</code> and contain all authorization credentials. These
references are passed as the first argument in all <code>get_</code>
functions and <code>post_</code> functions.</p>
<p>Suppose, for example, we are interested in pulling data about issues
in the <code>dplyr</code> re