pkgAvail {miniCRAN}R Documentation

Reads available packages from CRAN repository.

Description

This is a thin wrapper around utils::available.packages(). If the argument path is supplied, then the function attempts to read from a local repository, otherwise attempts to read from a CRAN mirror at the repos url.

Usage

pkgAvail(repos = getOption("repos"), type = "source",
  Rversion = R.version, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

repos

URL(s) of the 'contrib' sections of the repositories, e.g. "http://cran.us.r-project.org". Passed to available.packages()

type

Possible values are (currently) "source", "mac.binary" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed on other platforms. Passed to download.packages().

Rversion

Version of R. Can be specified as a character string with the two digit R version, e.g. "3.1". Defaults to R.version

quiet

If TRUE, suppresses warnings

See Also

pkgDep()


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