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hugo-rstats-pkg-meta

The catchies title of them all.

I don't know where this is going yet, please move along.

Motivation

The goal is to auto-generate a file (or multiple files?) that are suitable as Hugo data templates. The idea is to collect some basic metadata about R packages and have easy access to said data via the use of Hugo templates and/or shortcodes.

Currently I have generated something that at least collects all the CRAN packages and basic metadata, but of course it would also be neat of GitHub-only packages would be included as well, but I have no idea how to handle that yet.

Initially, for my own use, that data was based on my locally installed packages, but since I hope to automate the process via GitHub Actions, this does not seem feasible.

Current Status

• data/packages.yml: Derived from my locally installed packages and used by my hugo shortcode.
• data/packages/cran.yml: Collected via available.packages() and pkgsearch::cran_packages(), so it should contain all CRAN packages, but not with cleaned up URLs yet. Also, this file is >10MB.

Usage

To use this data with a Hugo site, you'll have to include it either as a theme component or a Hugo module in your config.toml:

[module]
  [[module.imports]]
    path = "github.com/jemus42/hugo-rstats-pkg-meta"

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