scrape_previous_pkg: Data Frame with the previous versions of an R package

In gastonstat/cranium: Craniography Tools for Exploring R packages in CRAN

Description

Extracts HTML contents of an R package's previous versions and returns a data frame with cleaned information

Usage

  scrape_previous_pkg(pkg_name)

Arguments

pkg_name

name of an R package in CRAN

Details

This function returns a data frame with the scraped contents of the original HTML table.

Value

data frame with five columns: "Name", "File", "Date", "Time", and "Size"

See Also

scrape_current_pkg

Examples

## Not run: 
  # extract cleaned HTML table in a data frame
  prev_table = scrape_previous_pkg("plspm")

## End(Not run)

gastonstat/cranium documentation built on May 16, 2019, 5:45 p.m.