init: init

In pkggraph: A Consistent and Intuitive Platform to Explore the Dependencies of Packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network Like Repositories

Description

Initiate the package by loading the data into parent frame. This should be done as soon as the package is loaded or attached. This creates(rewrites) new variables 'deptable' and 'packmeta' to the environment where it is run from.

Usage

init(local = FALSE, repository = "CRAN", ...)

Arguments

local	(flag, default: FALSE) If FALSE: Tries to to download package data from CRAN over internet and compute dependencies TRUE: Loads data that comes with the package corresponding to 2nd September 2017 02:04 IST
repository	(character vector, Default: "CRAN") One among c("CRAN", "BioCsoft", "BioCann", "BioCexp", "BioCextra", "omegahat"). To use a repository not in this list, set 'repository' to NULL and pass named argument called 'repos' with a valid repository address. This will be passed as is to 'utils::available.packages()'.
...	Additional parameters to be passed to 'available.packages()'

Value

An invisible TRUE

Author(s)

Srikanth KS

pkggraph documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:08 a.m.