Function reference • miniCRAN

Making a private repo

pkgAvail(): Reads available packages from CRAN repository.

pkgDep(): Retrieves package dependencies.

makeRepo() updateRepoIndex(): Downloads packages from CRAN to specified path and creates a local repository.

Updating packages in a repo

oldPackages() updatePackages(): Check for available package updates in a miniCRAN repo.

addLocalPackage(): Add local packages to a miniCRAN repository.

addOldPackage(): Add old package versions to a miniCRAN repository.

addPackage(): Add packages to a miniCRAN repository.

Dependency functions

basePkgs(): Returns names of base packages.

Github functions

addPackageListingGithub(): Add DESCRIPTION information from package on github.

Creating dependencies

pkgDep(): Retrieves package dependencies.

makeDepGraph(): Create dependency graph from available packages.

plot(<pkgDepGraph>): Plots a package dependency graph.

Deprecated

makeLibrary(): Deprecated function to download packages to local folder.

Other

checkVersions(): Check for previous versions of packages in a miniCRAN repository.

cranJuly2014: Stored version of available.packages()

getCranDescription(): Obtains DESCRIPTION metadata from CRAN for each package.

.listFiles(): List pre-built packages in a directory based on file extension

miniCRAN-package miniCRAN minicran: description

repoPrefix(): Get the path to the repo directory containing the package files.

twodigitRversion(): Get a two-digit version of the R version

is.online(): Returns TRUE if the p3m URL can be accessed.