checkPackageVersionOnCRAN: checks what is the version of package on CRAN

In GenABEL: genome-wide SNP association analysis

Description

Checks what is the version of package on CRAN. The CRAN page (baseUrlCRAN+packageName) is checked and parsed extracting the line with "Package source: packageName_Version.tar.gz" e.g. "Package source: GenABEL_1.6-9.tar.gz" and then the 'Version' is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned.

Usage

  checkPackageVersionOnCRAN(packageName,
    baseUrlCRAN = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/",
    timeout = 2)

Arguments

packageName	name of the package to check
baseUrlCRAN	path to CRAN repository
timeout	web chack timeout

Value

string containing CRAN version of the package

Author(s)

Yurii Aulchenko

Examples

library(GenABEL)
packageVersion("GenABEL")
checkPackageVersionOnCRAN("GenABEL")

GenABEL documentation built on May 30, 2017, 3:36 a.m.