Retrieve the List of CRAN Packages (Internal) — cran

Downloads and caches the current list of packages available on CRAN.

Usage

cran_packages(cache = TRUE)

Arguments

cache: Logical. If TRUE (default), the result is cached using memoise::memoise() with a timeout of 30 minutes to avoid repeated downloads. If FALSE, the metadata is fetched directly from CRAN each time the function is called.

Value

A matrix of package metadata similar to the output of utils::available.packages(), with package names as row names.

Details

The function downloads the packages.rds file from the CRAN website, which contains metadata about all available packages. The result is cached using memoise::memoise() with a timeout of 30 minutes.

Examples

# \donttest{
pkgs <- cran_packages()
head(rownames(pkgs))
#> [1] "aae.pop"       "AalenJohansen" "aamatch"       "AATtools"      "ABACUS"        "abasequence"  
# }