available.packages.bioc: Download a current list of available Bioconductor packages

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Description

This is a wrapper around “available.packages”, with default options set.

Usage

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  available.packages.bioc(prefix = getOption("BioC_mirror"))

Arguments

prefix

the URL prefix, eg: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN

Value

Same as the output from available.packages, but only listing packages from Bioconductor: A matrix with one row per package, row names the package names and column names “Package”, “Version”, “Priority”, “Depends”, “Imports”, “LinkingTo”, “Suggests”, “Enhances”, “OS_type”, “License”, “File” and “Repository”. Additional columns can be specified using the ‘fields’ argument.

Author(s)

Mark Cowley

See Also

available.packages

Examples

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# options(BioC_mirror="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/bioconductor")
tmp <- available.packages.bioc()
str(tmp)

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