Intro Recently, I’ve been on a bit of a usethis binge. I stumbled across usethis::pr_*() set of functions, which is geared toward speeding up contributions to community repositories. There is a wonderful vignette titled “Pull request helpers” that explains their usage in a real-world case study. Unfortunately, a prerequisite for using these commands is to have the repository downloaded. To that end, running usethis::create_from_github() to obtain a local copy of the repository resulted in a dreaded …