getRPackageInfo         package:RGtkViewers         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This downloads the PACKAGES files from the specified repositories
     and reads them as a DCF file and returns the information as a
     list.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getRPackageInfo(mirrors = c(CRAN = contrib.url(CRAN), Omegahat = "http://www.omegahat.org/download/R/packages", BioConductor = "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/distrib", ), CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), full = FALSE, ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

 mirrors: the named list of repository URLs. These names are used to
          index the results

    CRAN: the location of the CRAN mirror which is used in the default
          value of 'mirrors'.

    full: if 'TRUE', this fetches all the fields from the DCF.
          Otherwise, just the fields returned by 'CRAN.packages'.

     ...: additional arguments that are passed to 'download.file' if
          'full' is 'TRUE'

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list with elements correpsonding to those in the 'mirrors'
     argument, i.e. with the same names as that vector. Each element is
     a character vector containing the lines from the PACKAGES file for
     that repository.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.omegahat.org/RGtk>, <URL:
     http://www.omegahat.org/RGtkViewer>,   <URL:
     http://www.omegahat.org/RSDBI> <URL: http://www.gtk.org>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'CRANView'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

