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miniCRAN (version 0.0-16)

pkgAvail: Reads available packages from CRAN repository.

Description

This is a thin wrapper around available.packages. If the argument path is supplied, then the function attempts to read from a local repository, otherwise attempts to read from a CRAN mirror at the repos url.

Usage

pkgAvail(repos = getOption("repos"), type = "source", ...)

Arguments

repos
URL(s) of the 'contrib' sections of the repositories. Passed to available.packages
type
...
Other arguments passed to available.packages

See Also

Other miniCRAN: getCranDescription; pkgDep