remote_package_version: Check remote package version

In lmullen/mullenMisc: Miscellaneous Functions

Description

Check the version of a package available in a CRAN-style repository.

Usage

remote_package_version(pkg, repos = getOption("repos"))

Arguments

pkg	A character vector of package names.
repos	A character vector of CRAN-style repositories to check.

Details

This function does not use any of the filters that are used by available.packages to return only packages that are suitable for a particular machine without duplicates. It should show the versions available in all package repositories for all architectures.

Value

A data frame of package names, versions, and repositories.

Examples

remote_package_version(c("stringr"))

lmullen/mullenMisc documentation built on May 21, 2019, 7:35 a.m.