getPackageTitles {biocViews} | R Documentation |
These functions visit two Bioconductor releases branches, identifying differnt packages that are present in the ‘current’ repository from the ‘previous’ release. Utilizes the devel branch of bioconductor to retrieve description.
getPackageTitles(prevBranch="RELEASE_3_6", currBranch="master", manifest=c("software.txt", "data-experiment.txt", "workflows.txt"), status = c("new", "removed")) getPackageDescriptions(pkgs, outfile, output=c("md", "text"))
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get new or removed package list comparing currBranch to prevBranch |
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character() A list of packages to retrieve DESCRIPTION |
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A list of package titles.
Martin Morgan mtmorgan@fhcrc.org and Lori Shepherd
## Not run: # At release time get a list of new or removed or deprecated packages # get new packages in release 3.7 that are not in 3.6 newSoft = getPackageTitles() # get removed packages from 3.6 rmSoft = getPackageTitles(currBranch="RELEASE_3_7", status="removed") # get depreacted package for 3.7 deprecatedSoft = setdiff(getPackageTitles(status="removed"), rmSoft) # repeated above for data-experiment packages newData = getPackageTitles(manifest="data-experiment.txt") rmData = getPackageTitles(currBranch="RELEASE_3_7", manifest="data-experiment.txt", status="removed") deprecatedData = setdiff(getPackageTitles(manifest="data-experiment.txt", status="removed"), rmData) ## End(Not run)