Retrieve the archive and the current database.
Value
A data.frame with 6 columns: Package, Date (of publication), Version, User, size and status (archived or current). It is sorted by package name and date
Details
There are some packages with NA in version, those are version names that do
not pass current package_version() with strict = TRUE.
Other packages might have been on CRAN but could have been removed.
See also
CRAN_archive_db(), CRAN_current_db(), cran_comments().
Examples
# \donttest{
ca <- cran_archive()
#> Retrieving cran_archive, this might take a bit.
#> Next call will be faster.
#> Warning: There are 5 packages both archived and published
#> This indicate manual CRAN intervention.
head(ca)
#> Package Datetime Version User Size Status
#> 1 A3 2013-02-07 09:00:29 0.9.1 hornik 45252 archived
#> 2 A3 2013-03-26 18:58:40 0.9.2 ligges 45907 archived
#> 3 A3 2015-08-16 21:05:54 1.0.0 hornik 42810 current
#> 4 AATtools 2020-06-14 15:10:07 0.0.1 ligges 145230 archived
#> 5 AATtools 2022-08-12 13:40:11 0.0.2 ligges 249141 archived
#> 6 AATtools 2024-08-16 09:10:08 0.0.3 ligges 252641 current
# }