parse_packages: Parse a repository metadata PACAKGES* file

In pkgcache: Cache 'CRAN'-Like Metadata and R Packages

Parse a repository metadata ⁠PACAKGES*⁠ file

Description

Parse a repository metadata ⁠PACAKGES*⁠ file

Usage

parse_packages(path, type = NULL)

Arguments

path	Path to the ⁠PACKAGES*⁠ file.
type	Type of the file. By default it is determined automatically. Types: uncompressed, gzip compressed, bzip2 compressed, xz compressed. rds, an RDS file, which will be read using base::readRDS().

Details

Non-existent, unreadable or corrupt PACKAGES files with trigger an error.

⁠PACKAGES*⁠ files do not usually declare an encoding, but nevertheless parse_packages() works correctly if they do.

Value

A data frame, with all columns from the file at path.

Note

parse_packages() cannot currently read files that have very many different fields (many columns in the result data frame). The current limit is 1000. Typical PACKAGES files contain less than 20 field types.

pkgcache documentation built on July 26, 2023, 5:44 p.m.