readSourceFromRForge: readSourceFromRForge
In SweaveListingUtils: Utilities for Sweave Together with TeX 'listings' Package

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

reads a source file (usually ‘.R’ oder ‘.Rd’) from R forge repository

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readSourceFromRForge(PKG, TYPE, FILENAME, PROJECT,
                     fromRForge = getSweaveListingOption("fromRForge"),
                     base.url = getSweaveListingOption("base.url"))

`PKG`	character; name of package to be downloaded
`TYPE`	character; style of the source code — "man" or "R"
`FILENAME`	character; the name of the source file to be downloaded
`PROJECT`	character; the name of the R-Forge project
`fromRForge`	logical; shall code be downloaded from an R-Forge mirror? Defaults to the corresponding global option
`base.url`	character; base url from where to download the code sniplet

reads source file from R-forge [from most recent revision in trunc], but caches the result in a global list in the namespace of package SweaveListingUtils, so if the URL has already been cached, the cached copy is used. The cached copies are stored in list .CacheFiles; the current length of this list is stored in .CacheLength.

the character content of the source file

Peter Ruckdeschel peter.ruckdeschel@uni-oldenburg.de