isPkgAvailable: Check Availability of R Packages

In Sage-Bionetworks/sessionTools: Tools for saving, restoring and teleporting R sessions.

Description

Check the repositories for availability of packages and return a boolean indicating whether the package is found.

Usage

isPkgAvailable(pkg, repos = getOption("repos"), version)

Arguments

pkg	package names. Either a single string or an array of strings.
repos	Repositories to search.
version	The specific package version. Currently ignored.

Value

Boolean indicating whether the package is available. One boolean for each package name provided.

Author(s)

Matthew D. Furia [e-mail]

https://github.com/MattNapsAlot

See Also

restorePackages

Examples

## Not run: 
ans <- isPkgAvailable(c("Biobase", "stats", "thisIsAFakePackage"))

## End(Not run)

Sage-Bionetworks/sessionTools documentation built on May 9, 2019, 12:13 p.m.