extractoR-package: R packages metadata extractor
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extractoR-package

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R packages metadata extractor

Description

extractoR is a R package that can be used to fetch, extract and dump R packages metadata from CRAN and GitHub into MongoDB.

Details

extractoR is composed of the following packages:

extractoR.cran contains functions to fetch raw data from CRAN. Main functions are used to get the list of available packages, download these packages and extract them on local disk. Future versions will include mailing list fetching.

extractoR.github contains functions to fetch R package repositories from Github.

extractoR.extract contains functions to extract information from R package repositories. Most of those functions return data.table objects.

extractoR.data contains functions to read, manipulate and export extracted and processed (meta)data.

extractoR.snapshots contains functions to read results of "R CMD check" commands run on CRAN (see http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/). It requires that one manually download the files check_flavors.rds, check_details.rds and check_results.rds and then store them in a directory which name is based on the date of extraction (using the format " Ideally this manual extraction should be automated with a cron job to keep an history of this check results.

extractoR.content browses packages and aggregates informations about packages content.