CRANView {RGtkViewers} | R Documentation |
This presents a GUI for browsing the list of R packages on one or more repositories such as CRAN, Omegahat, BioConductor. The packages are presented in a tree, grouped by repository. Selecting a package named displays its details taken from its DESCRIPTION file. One can also click on a button in that page to install that package.
CRANView(mirrors = c(CRAN = contrib.url(CRAN), Omegahat = "http://www.omegahat.org/download/R/packages", BioConductor = "http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/distrib"), CRAN = getOption("CRAN"), pkgs = getRPackageInfo(mirrors, full = TRUE))
mirrors |
a named character vector containing elements of the form repository name and URL in which the packages are to be found. |
CRAN |
the URL identifying the location of the CRAN repository. By default, this is taken from the session's options, but one can specify a different mirror as one desires. |
pkgs |
information about the packages in the mirrors. This can be downloaded previously and passed to this function to avoid re-fetching the material over the network. |
A list with elements
window |
the GtkWindow object which gives the display |
packages |
the package information which can be used in
subsequent calls via the pkgs argument to avoid
having to download the details again. |
Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>
http://www.omegahat.org/RGtk, http://www.omegahat.org/RGtkViewer, http://www.omegahat.org/RSDBI http://www.gtk.org
## Not run: CRANView() CRANView(c(Omegahat="http://www.omegahat.org/download/R/packages")) ## End(Not run)