available.packages
This has a 6 minute memory time window. This will be replaced upon first calls to.
available.packagesMem(contriburl, method, fields, type, filters, repos)
URL(s) of the contrib
sections of the repositories.
Specify this argument only if your repository mirror is incomplete,
e.g., because you burned only the contrib
section on a CD.
download method, see download.file
.
a character vector giving the fields to extract from
the PACKAGES
file(s) in addition to the default ones, or
NULL
(default). Unavailable fields result in NA
values.
character string, indicate which type of packages: see
install.packages
.
If type = "both"
this will use the source repository.
a character vector or list or NULL
(default). See ‘Details’.
character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use.