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CRAN's alias

Source: R/cran_alias.R
cran_alias.Rd

Retrieve alias available on CRAN.

Usage

cran_alias(packages = NULL)

Arguments

packages

A vector with packages or NULL for all packages.

Value

A data.frame with three columns: Package, Source and Target. NA if not able to collect the data from CRAN.

See also

The raw source of the data is: CRAN_aliases_db().

Other alias: base_alias()

Other meta info from CRAN: cran_archive(), cran_comments(), cran_history(), cran_links()

Examples

ca <- cran_alias("BWStest")
#> Retrieving cran_aliases, this might take a bit.
#> Caching results to be faster next call in this session.
head(ca)
#>   Package             Source          Target
#> 1 BWStest BWStest-package.Rd BWStest-package
#> 2 BWStest            NEWS.Rd    BWStest-NEWS
#> 3 BWStest         bws_cdf.Rd         bws_cdf
#> 4 BWStest        bws_stat.Rd        bws_stat
#> 5 BWStest        bws_test.Rd        bws_test
#> 6 BWStest    murakami_cdf.Rd    murakami_cdf