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Move older copies of packages to an archive

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Description

The function moves older versions of packages into a CRAN-style archive folder.

Usage

archivePackages(repopath = getOption("dratRepo", "~/git/drat"),
  type = c("source", "binary", "mac.binary", "mac.binary.big-sur-x86_64",
  "mac.binary.big-sur-arm64", "mac.binary.el-capitan", "mac.binary.mavericks",
  "win.binary", "both"), pkg, version = getRversion())

archivePackagesForAllRversions(repopath = getOption("dratRepo", "~/git/drat"),
  type = c("source", "binary", "mac.binary", "mac.binary.big-sur-x86_64",
  "mac.binary.big-sur-arm64", "mac.binary.el-capitan", "mac.binary.mavericks",
  "win.binary", "both"), pkg)

Arguments

repopath Character variable with the path to the repo; defaults to the value of the “dratRepo” option with “"~/git/drat"” as fallback
type Character variable for the type of repository, so far “source”, “binary”, “win.binary”, “mac.binary”, “mac.binary.big-sur-x86_64”, “mac.binary.big-sur-arm64”, “mac.binary.mavericks”, “mac.binary.el-capitan” or “both”
pkg Optional character variable specifying a package name(s), whose older versions should be archived. If missing (the default), archiving is performed on all packages.
version R version information in the format X.Y or X.Y.Z. Only used, if archiving binary packages. (default: version = getRversion()). If version = NA, all available R versions will be used. If version = NULL, this defaults to getRversion().

Details

This function is still undergoing development and polish and may change in subsequent versions.

Author(s)

Thomas J. Leeper

Examples

library("drat")

  archivePackages()   # archive all older package versions
  archivePackages(pkg = "drat")  # archive older copies of just one package