metadata: Metadata cache utilities

In r-lib/pkgman: Another Approach to Package Installation

Metadata cache utilities

Description

Various utilities to inspect, update and clean the metadata cache. See the pkgcache package if you need for control over the metadata cache.

Usage

meta_summary()

meta_list(pkg = NULL)

meta_update()

meta_clean(force = FALSE)

Arguments

pkg	Package names, if specified then only entries for pkg are returned.
force	If FALSE, then pak will ask for confirmation.

Details

meta_summary() returns a summary of the metadata cache.

meta_list() lists all (or some) packages in the metadata database.

meta_update() updates the metadata database. You don't normally need to call this function manually, because all pak functions (e.g. pkg_install(), pkg_download(), etc.) call it automatically, to make sure that they use the latest available metadata.

meta_clean() deletes the whole metadata DB.

Value

meta_summary() returns a list with entries:

• cachepath: absolute path of the metadata cache.

• current_db: the file that contains the current metadata database. It is currently an RDS file, but this might change in the future.

• raw_files: the files that are the downloaded ⁠PACKAGES*⁠ files.

• db_files: all metadata database files.

• size: total size of the metadata cache.

meta_list() returns a data frame of all available packages in the configured repositories.

meta_update() returns nothing.

meta_clean() returns nothing

Examples

Metadata cache summary:

meta_summary()
#> $cachepath
#> [1] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata"
#> 
#> $current_db
#> [1] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/pkgs-34444e3072.rds"
#> 
#> $raw_files
#>  [1] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCann-59693086a0/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES.gz"      
#>  [2] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCann-59693086a0/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz"                               
#>  [3] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCexp-90d4a3978b/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES.gz"      
#>  [4] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCexp-90d4a3978b/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz"                               
#>  [5] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCsoft-2a43920999/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES.gz"     
#>  [6] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCsoft-2a43920999/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz"                              
#>  [7] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCworkflows-26330ba3ca/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES.gz"
#>  [8] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/BioCworkflows-26330ba3ca/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz"                         
#>  [9] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/CRAN-075c426938/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/PACKAGES.gz"         
#> [10] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/CRAN-075c426938/src/contrib/PACKAGES.gz"                                  
#> 
#> $db_files
#> [1] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/pkgs-34444e3072.rds"
#> [2] "/Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata/pkgs-ccacf1b389.rds"
#> 
#> $size
#> [1] 174848200

The current metadata DB:

meta_list()

#> ✔ Loading metadata database ... done                                    
#> # A data frame: 45,279 × 32                                             
#>    package version depends sugge…¹ license imports linki…² archs enhan…³
#>    <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr> <chr>  
#>  1 A3      1.0.0   R (>= … random… GPL (>… NA      NA      NA    NA     
#>  2 AATtoo… 0.0.2   R (>= … NA      GPL-3   magrit… NA      NA    NA     
#>  3 ABACUS  1.0.0   R (>= … rmarkd… GPL-3   ggplot… NA      NA    NA     
#>  4 ABC.RAP 0.9.0   R (>= … knitr,… GPL-3   graphi… NA      NA    NA     
#>  5 ABCana… 1.2.1   R (>= … NA      GPL-3   plotrix NA      NA    NA     
#>  6 ABCopt… 0.15.0  NA      testth… MIT + … Rcpp, … Rcpp    ABCo… NA     
#>  7 ABCp2   1.2     MASS    NA      GPL-2   NA      NA      NA    NA     
#>  8 ABHgen… 1.0.1   NA      knitr,… GPL-3   ggplot… NA      NA    NA     
#>  9 ABPS    0.3     NA      testth… GPL (>… kernlab NA      NA    NA     
#> 10 ACA     1.1     R (>= … NA      GPL     graphi… NA      NA    NA     
#> # … with 45,269 more rows, 23 more variables:                           
#> #   license_restricts_use <chr>, os_type <chr>, priority <chr>,         
#> #   license_is_foss <chr>, repodir <chr>, rversion <chr>,               
#> #   platform <chr>, needscompilation <chr>, ref <chr>, type <chr>,      
#> #   direct <lgl>, status <chr>, target <chr>, mirror <chr>,             
#> #   sources <list>, filesize <int>, sha256 <chr>, sysreqs <chr>,        
#> #   built <chr>, published <dttm>, deps <list>, md5sum <chr>, …         

Selected packages only:

meta_list(pkg = c("shiny", "htmlwidgets"))

#>   package  version depends sugge…¹ license imports linki…² archs enhan…³
#> * <chr>    <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr> <chr>  
#> 1 htmlwid… 1.5.4   NA      "knitr… MIT + … "grDev… NA      NA    shiny …
#> 2 shiny    1.7.3   R (>= … "datas… GPL-3 … "utils… NA      NA    NA     
#> 3 htmlwid… 1.6.0   NA      "testt… MIT + … "grDev… NA      NA    shiny …
#> 4 shiny    1.7.4   R (>= … "datas… GPL-3 … "utils… NA      NA    NA     
#> # … with 23 more variables: license_restricts_use <chr>, os_type <chr>, 
#> #   priority <chr>, license_is_foss <chr>, repodir <chr>,               
#> #   rversion <chr>, platform <chr>, needscompilation <chr>, ref <chr>,  
#> #   type <chr>, direct <lgl>, status <chr>, target <chr>, mirror <chr>, 
#> #   sources <list>, filesize <int>, sha256 <chr>, sysreqs <chr>,        
#> #   built <chr>, published <dttm>, deps <list>, md5sum <chr>,           
#> #   path <chr>, and abbreviated variable names ¹​suggests, ²​linkingto, 
#> …                                                                       

Update the metadata DB

meta_update()

#> ✔ Updated metadata database: 1.23 MB in 1 file.                         
#> ✔ Updating metadata database ... done                                   

Delete the metadata DB

meta_clean()

#> ℹ Cleaning up cache directory /Users/gaborcsardi/Library/Caches/org.R-pr
#> oject.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata.                                           

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