GenABEL (version 1.8-0)

checkPackageVersionOnCRAN: checks what is the version of package on CRAN

Description

Checks what is the version of package on CRAN. The CRAN page (baseUrlCRAN+packageName) is checked and parsed extracting the line with "Package source: packageName_Version.tar.gz" e.g. "Package source: GenABEL_1.6-9.tar.gz" and then the 'Version' is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned.

Usage

checkPackageVersionOnCRAN(packageName, baseUrlCRAN = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/", timeout = 2)

Arguments

packageName

name of the package to check

baseUrlCRAN

path to CRAN repository

timeout

web chack timeout

Value

string containing CRAN version of the package

Examples

library(GenABEL)
packageVersion("GenABEL")
checkPackageVersionOnCRAN("GenABEL")