available.packages.cran: Download a current list of available CRAN 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.cran(prefix = getOption("repos"))

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 CRAN: 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(repos="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN")
p <- available.packages.cran()
str(p)

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