cran_archive: Retrieve CRAN archive

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Retrieve CRAN archive

Description

Retrieve the archive and the current database.

Usage

cran_archive(packages = NULL)

Arguments

packages

A vector with packages or NULL for all packages.

Details

Some packages would get an NA in Version, if package_version() were to be used with strict = FALSE. Packages might have been on CRAN but could have been removed and won't show up. Depending on the data requested and packages currently on CRAN, you might get a warning regarding a package being both archived and current.

Value

A data.frame with 6 columns: Package, Date (of publication), Version, User, size and status (archived or current). It is sorted by package name and date.

See Also

The raw source of the data is: CRAN_archive_db(), CRAN_current_db(). For some dates and comments about archiving packages: cran_comments().

Other meta info from CRAN: cran_alias(), cran_comments(), cran_history(), cran_links()

Examples

ap <- available.packages()
a_package <- rownames(ap)[startsWith(rownames(ap), "A")][2]
ca <- cran_archive(a_package)
head(ca)

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