Parse a repository metadata PACAKGES* file

Source: R/installed.R

Parse a repository metadata PACAKGES* file

parse_packages(path, type = NULL)

Arguments

path

Path to the PACKAGES* file.

type

Type of the file. By default it is determined automatically. Types:

  • uncompressed,

  • gzip compressed,

  • bzip2 compressed,

  • xz compressed.

  • rds, an RDS file, which will be read using base::readRDS().

Value

A data frame, with all columns from the file at path.

Details

Non-existent, unreadable or corrupt PACKAGES files with trigger an error.

PACKAGES* files do not usually declare an encoding, but nevertheless parse_packages() works correctly if they do.

Note

parse_packages() cannot currently read files that have very many different fields (many columns in the result data frame). The current limit is 1000. Typical PACKAGES files contain less than 20 field types.