repo.data (version 0.1.5)

cran_comments: CRAN comments

Description

CRAN volunteers document since ~2009 why they archive packages. This function retrieves the data and prepares it for analysis, classifying the actions taken by the team per package and date.

Usage

cran_comments(packages = NULL)

Value

A data.frame with four columns: package, comment, date and action. NA if not able to collect the data from CRAN.

Arguments

packages

A vector with packages or NULL for all packages.

Details

The comments are slightly edited: multiple comments for the same action are joined together so that they can be displayed on a single line. Actions are inferred from 7 keywords: archived, orphaned, removed, renamed, replaced, unarchived, unorphaned.

References

Original file: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.in

See Also

Other meta info from CRAN: cran_alias(), cran_archive(), cran_history(), cran_links()

Examples

# \donttest{
cc <- cran_comments()
head(cc)
# }