List all available Posit Package Manager (PPM) snapshots
Value
Data frame with two columns:
date
: the time the snapshot was taken, aPOSIXct
vector,id
: integer id of the snapshot, this can be used in the repository URL.
Details
The repository URL of a snapshot has the following form on Windows:
where {base}
is the base URL for PPM (see ppm_repo_url()
) and
{id}
is either the date or id of the snapshot, or latest
for
the latest snapshot. E.g. these are equivalent:
On a Linux distribution that has PPM support, the repository URL that contains the binary packages looks like this:
where {id}
is as before, and {binary_url}
is a code name for a release
of a supported Linux distribution. See the binary_url
column of the
result of ppm_platforms()
for these code names.
See also
The 'pkgcache and Posit Package Manager on Linux' article at https://r-lib.github.io/pkgcache/dev/.
Other PPM functions:
ppm_has_binaries()
,
ppm_platforms()
,
ppm_r_versions()
,
ppm_repo_url()
Examples
ppm_snapshots()
#> # A data frame: 2,585 × 2
#> date id
#> <date> <chr>
#> 1 2017-10-10 2017-10-10
#> 2 2017-10-11 2017-10-11
#> 3 2017-10-12 2017-10-12
#> 4 2017-10-13 2017-10-13
#> 5 2017-10-14 2017-10-14
#> 6 2017-10-15 2017-10-15
#> 7 2017-10-16 2017-10-16
#> 8 2017-10-17 2017-10-17
#> 9 2017-10-18 2017-10-18
#> 10 2017-10-19 2017-10-19
#> # ℹ 2,575 more rows