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miniCRAN (version 0.3.1)

Create a Mini Version of CRAN Containing Only Selected Packages

Description

Makes it possible to create an internally consistent repository consisting of selected packages from CRAN-like repositories. The user specifies a set of desired packages, and 'miniCRAN' recursively reads the dependency tree for these packages, then downloads only this subset. The user can then install packages from this repository directly, rather than from CRAN. This is useful in production settings, e.g. server behind a firewall, or remote locations with slow (or zero) Internet access.

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install.packages('miniCRAN')

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Version

0.3.1

License

GPL-2

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Repository

https://github.com/andrie/miniCRAN

Maintainer

Andrie Vries

Last Published

April 23rd, 2025

Functions in miniCRAN (0.3.1)

plot.pkgDepGraph

Plots a package dependency graph.

Create dependency graph from available packages.

Reads available packages from CRAN repository.

Downloads packages from CRAN to specified path and creates a local repository.

twodigitRversion

Get a two-digit version of the R version

Check for available package updates in a miniCRAN repo.

Retrieves package dependencies.

Deprecated function to download packages to local folder.

Get the path to the repo directory containing the package files.

miniCRAN-package

List pre-built packages in a directory based on file extension

Add packages to a miniCRAN repository.

Check for previous versions of packages in a miniCRAN repository.

Returns TRUE if the p3m URL can be accessed.

addPackageListingGithub

Add DESCRIPTION information from package on github.

Returns names of base packages.

Add old package versions to a miniCRAN repository.

getCranDescription

Obtains DESCRIPTION metadata from CRAN for each package.

addLocalPackage

Add local packages to a miniCRAN repository.

Stored version of available.packages()