checkPackageVersionOnCRAN {GenABEL}R Documentation

checks what is the version of package on CRAN

Description

Checks what is the version of package on CRAN. The CRAN page (baseUrlCRAN+packageName) is checked and parsed extracting the line with "Package source: packageName_Version.tar.gz" e.g. "Package source: GenABEL_1.6-9.tar.gz" and then the 'Version' is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned.

Usage

  checkPackageVersionOnCRAN(packageName,
    baseUrlCRAN = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/",
    timeout = 2)

Arguments

packageName

name of the package to check

baseUrlCRAN

path to CRAN repository

timeout

web chack timeout

Value

string containing CRAN version of the package

Author(s)

Yurii Aulchenko

Examples

library(GenABEL)
packageVersion("GenABEL")
checkPackageVersionOnCRAN("GenABEL")
[Package GenABEL version 1.8-0 Index]