pkg_age: Determine the Age of An Installed Package

In bgreenwell/pkgbday: Birthday and Ages of Installed R Packages

Description

Determine the age of a particular installed package. The age is simply the time difference (using difftime) between today's date and the package's very first appearance on CRAN.

Usage

pkg_age(package, units = c("auto", "secs", "mins", "hours", "days", "weeks"),
  ...)

Arguments

package	Character string specifying the name of the package.
units	character string specifying the units (e.g., "days"). Can be abbreviated.
...	Additional optional arguments to be passed on to pkg_bday.

Value

A "difftime" object representing the age of the package. Can be coerced to a double using as.double.

Examples

## Not run: 
pkg_age("rpart")
cat("rpart is", as.double(pkg.age("rpart")) / 365, "years old today!\n")

## End(Not run)

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