Get Package Versions — get_versions • risk.assessr

This function retrieves all available versions of a package, including the latest version, by parsing the provided version table and querying the RStudio Package Manager.

Usage

get_versions(table, package_name)

Arguments

table: A list of parsed package data (e.g., from `parse_html_version()`), where each element contains package details such as `package_version` and `date`.
package_name: A character string specifying the name of the package to fetch versions for.

Value

A list with the following elements:

all_versions

A list of named lists, each containing:

version: The version number of the package.
date: The associated publication date as a string.

last_version

A named list containing the latest version of the package with:

version: The latest version number.
date: The publication date of the latest version.

May be NULL if the API call fails.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Define the input table
table <- list(
  list(
    package_name = "here",
    package_version = "0.1",
    link = "here_0.1.tar.gz",
    date = "2017-05-28 08:13",
    size = "3.5K"
  ),
  list(
    package_name = "here",
    package_version = "1.0.0",
    link = "here_1.0.0.tar.gz",
    date = "2020-11-15 18:10",
    size = "32K"
  )
)

result <- get_versions(table, "here")
print(result)
} # }