Return information about Posit's (and some other) R builds for Linux
linux_distros()A data frame with the following columns:
id: The distro ID, e.g. ubuntu-2404.
aliases: A list column of character vectors with alternative names
for the distro. Alternative names starting and ending with a forward
slash are regular expressions.
name: The full name of the distro, e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
version: The version of the distro, e.g. 24.04 for Ubuntu, or 9
for RHEL.
codename: The codename of the distro, e.g. focal for Ubuntu 20.04.
url: The URL of the distro's homepage.
docker: The name of the official Docker image for the distro,
e.g. ubuntu:20.04.
eol: The end-of-life date of the distro, or NA if unknown.
retired: whether the distro version is retired for Posit and R-hub.
aarch64: whether aarch64 builds are available for this distro.
Possible values are posit (builds are available from Posit),
r-hub (builds are available from R-hub), none (no builds are
available).
ppm_binaries: whether PPM binaries are available for this distro.
ppm_aarch64: whether aarch64 PPM binaries are available for this
distro.
ppm_url: The URL of the PPM binaries for this distro.
linux_distros() caches its results in the current R session. To clear
the cache restart R or set the R_VERSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment
variable to 0.