[R-pkg-devel] Read CRAN package DESCRIPTION without downloading source

[Michael Chirico]

one thing to keep in mind for the GitHub mirror is that archived packages
are not marked any differently, e.g.

https://github.com/cran/rgeos

I typically use Henrik's URLs but you need to set up some retry logic. The
rsync approach sounds nice, think I'll try that next time :)

On Sun, May 18, 2025, 7:59 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> Also, and while it won't help for the non-standard field in question here,
> the standard fields are all compiled into what tools::CRAN_package_db()
> returns. Very handy for many use cases, and possibly not as well known as
> it
> should be.
>
> Dirk
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