findnewestpkg: Find newest packages in a package info data.frame

In switchr: Installing, Managing, and Switching Between Distinct Sets of Installed Packages

Find newest packages in a package info data.frame

Description

Find newest packages in a package info data.frame

Usage

findNewestPkgInds(df, pkgcol = "package", verscol = "version")

findNewestPkgRows(
  df,
  pkgcol = "package",
  verscol = "version",
  newcol = "new",
  verbose = FALSE,
  logfun = message
)

Arguments

df	data.frame. Table of package information
pkgcol	string. Name of column containing package name
verscol	string. Name of column containing package version in version-string form.
newcol	character. Experimental. column name for the column indicating that the version is new.
verbose	logical. Should debugging information be written using logfun during this process.
logfun	function. Logging function (closure) which should be called to write verbose logging messages during the process.

Value

a data.frame with the same columns as df which contains only the most recent row for each unique package name, as determined by the contents of df[[verscol]]

for findNewestPkgInds, the indices of the rows representing the newest version of each package within df. For findNewestPkgRows, the rows themselves from df representing the newest version of each package.

switchr documentation built on March 31, 2023, 5:13 p.m.