[R] generating cran package list matching R minor version

[William Dunlap]

I believe that https://mran.microsoft.com/packages contains daily snapshots
of CRAN and you can use the 'checkpoint' package to retrieve packages as
they were on any given day.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:38 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 9, 2017, at 5:38 AM, Christian Meesters <meesters at uni-mainz.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > It is a common problem to update R for distributors. My challenge is to
> maintain R module files for a cluster, using easybuild.
> >
> > My question is: Is there a way to derive a list of cran packages and
> their version for a given version of R?
>
> I'm wondering whether this is a well-defined question. The could have been
> several versions of a package released over the course of any given
> interval during which any one version (major or minor variants) of R might
> have been "current". You should ascertain the dimensions of the problem by
> first viewing three webpages:
>
> 1) https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/     # versions of R (source)
> 2) https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_package.html
> #(current packages by fork of R)
> 3) https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive   # Package Archive
> >
> > In case addressing the R-help list is addressing wrong list, any pointer
> is appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Christian Meesters
> >
>
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>
> David Winsemius
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