Extract and Validate Package Hosting Information — get_host

This function retrieves hosting links for an R package from various sources such as GitHub, CRAN, internal repositories, or Bioconductor.

Usage

get_host_package(pkg_name, pkg_version, pkg_source_path)

Arguments

pkg_name: Character. The name of the package.
pkg_version: Character. The version of the package.
pkg_source_path: Character. The file path to the package source directory containing the DESCRIPTION file.

Value

A list containing the following elements:

- `github_links`: GitHub links related to the package. - `cran_links`: CRAN links - `internal_links`: internal repository links. - `bioconductor_links`: Bioconductor links

If links are found, return empty or NULL.

Details

The function extracts hosting links by: 1. Parsing the `DESCRIPTION` file for GitHub and BugReports URLs. 2. Checking if the package is valid on CRAN and others host repository

If no links are found in the `DESCRIPTION` file, returns `NULL`

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
result <- get_host_package(pkg_name, pkg_version, pkg_source_path)
print(result)
} # }