posting a PNG?

[tdhock]

I would like to post a PNG to a gist but I am getting the following error

> gist_create("/tmp/RtmpQZytoH/file2f9877e26e34/thumbnail.png")
Loading required package: rjson
Error in content(response)$html_url (from gist.R#78) : 
  $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
In addition: Warning messages:
1: client error: (400) Bad Request 
2: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,  :
  there is no package called ‘rjson’

the image I tried to upload is below -- I uploaded it using git clone, git add, git commit, git push .

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/tdhock/1f01f3359f60582a67cf/raw/19504d4bdf7daa8bdec14868723ef88ded794d79/thumbnail.png

also I can upload lots of other files (text files). Is there some problem with uploading binary files?

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] graphics  utils     datasets  grDevices stats     methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] RSelenium_1.3.1    XML_3.98-1.1       caTools_1.16       gistr_0.0.2       
 [5] animint_2014.5.22  proto_0.3-10       RColorBrewer_1.0-5 lattice_0.20-29   
 [9] plotly_0.4         ggplot2_0.9.3.1.99 RJSONIO_1.0-3      RCurl_1.95-4.1    
[13] bitops_1.0-6      

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] assertthat_0.1   colorspace_1.2-4 compiler_3.1.0   dichromat_2.0-0 
 [5] digest_0.6.4     evaluate_0.5.5   formatR_0.10     grid_3.1.0      
 [9] gtable_0.1.2     httr_0.2         knitr_1.5.34     labeling_0.2    
[13] MASS_7.3-31      munsell_0.4.2    plyr_1.8.1       Rcpp_0.11.1     
[17] reshape2_1.2.2   scales_0.2.3     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.0     

[ramnathv]

Yes. The only way to upload pngs is to use git. The way it would work is as follows:

1. Clone the gist to your local computer.
2. Add the image to the git repo.
3. Push it back using git push.

There might be a simple way to automate this process within gistr.

[tdhock]

ok, so if I understand correctly there is no problem with the gistr::gist_create function, and in fact the problem is that the gist server does not accept binary files. thanks for the info.

[tdhock]

it would be nice to have a more informative warning/error message though.