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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 May 2025 at 09:23, Michael Chirico wrote:
| 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 :)

But you can 'inner join' with the package names from available.packages() or
the package name column from tools::CRAN_package_db().  And then again, for
the Rust packages he tries to help, maybe Josi even _wants to_ see these.

Dirk
 
| 
| 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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