r - Using the 'available.packages' Function to Retrieve Emails -
i attempting retrieve email addresses of contributing package authors , maintainers r-project. function reads follows:
availpkgs <- available.packages(contriburl = contrib.url(getoption("repos"), type), method, fields = null, type = getoption("pkgtype"), filters = null)
i've attempted different character values in fields
parameter retrieve maintainer , author info 'packages' files, have not been had luck. know how might approach this? thank in advance time.
i not think author information in available.packages()
retrieves:
r> ap <- available.packages() r> colnames(ap) [1] "package" "version" "priority" [4] "bundle" "contains" "depends" [7] "imports" "linkingto" "suggests" [10] "enhances" "os_type" "license" [13] "file" "repository" r>
so maybe need combine per-package lookup of description info @ cran (or mirror). that, , few more things, in 200-line script driving cranberries rss feed / html summary of package updates @ cran stores stateful info in sqlite. this, retrieve author, maintainer etc directly package looking @ rather in 1 big global scoop. said, there may of course other meta-data @ cran this...
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