R: Simpler available.packages

available_packages_set {remotes} | R Documentation

## Simpler available.packages

### Description

This is mostly equivalent to `utils::available.packages()` however it also caches the full result. Additionally the cache can be assigned explicitly with `available_packages_set()` and reset (cleared) with `available_packages_reset()`.

### Usage

    available_packages_set(repos, type, db)

    available_packages_reset()

    available_packages(repos = getOption("repos"),
      type = getOption("pkgType"))

### Arguments

`repos` | character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use.
`type` | character string, indicate which type of packages: see `install.packages`. If `type = "both"` this will use the source repository.

### See Also

`utils::available.packages()` for full documentation on the output format.

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