ppm_platforms: List all platforms supported by Posit Package Manager (PPM)

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List all platforms supported by Posit Package Manager (PPM)

Description

List all platforms supported by Posit Package Manager (PPM)

Usage

ppm_platforms()

Value

Data frame with columns:

• name: platform name, this is essentially an identifier,

• os: operating system, linux, windows or macOS currently,

• binary_url: the URL segment of the binary repository URL of this platform, see ppm_snapshots().

• distribution: for Linux platforms the name of the distribution,

• release: for Linux platforms, the name of the release,

• binaries: whether PPM builds binaries for this platform.

• platforms: a list column of character vectors; for each row they list all possible matching distribution and release strings. Each string can be a fixes strings, but if it starts and ends with a forward string, then it is used as regular expression.

See Also

The 'pkgcache and Posit Package Manager on Linux' article at https://r-lib.github.io/pkgcache/dev/.

Other PPM functions: ppm_has_binaries(), ppm_r_versions(), ppm_repo_url(), ppm_snapshots()

Examples

ppm_platforms()

pkgcache documentation built on June 8, 2025, 10:49 a.m.