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
Some packages would get an NA in Version, if package_version() were to be
used with strict = FALSE.
Packages might have been on CRAN but could have been removed and won't show up.
Depending on the data requested and packages currently on CRAN, you might get
a warning regarding a package being both archived and current.
See also
The raw source of the data is: CRAN_archive_db(),
CRAN_current_db().
For some dates and comments about archiving packages: cran_comments().
Examples
# \donttest{
ap <- available.packages()
a_package <- rownames(ap)[startsWith(rownames(ap), "A")][2]
ca <- cran_archive(a_package)
head(ca)
#> Package Datetime Version User Size Status
#> 1 AATtools 2020-06-14 15:10:07 0.0.1 ligges 145230 archived
#> 2 AATtools 2022-08-12 13:40:11 0.0.2 ligges 249141 archived
#> 3 AATtools 2024-08-16 09:10:08 0.0.3 ligges 252641 current
# }