Get available versions

Get package version from CRAN

risk.assessr can fetch the version available for an R package along with the release date.

result_cran <- check_and_fetch_cran_package("admiral", "1.0.0")

result_cran$package_url

result_cran$last_version

head(result_cran$all_versions, n = 2) 

Get package version from Bioconductor

risk.assessr can fetch the version available for an R package stored on bioconductor

html_content <- fetch_bioconductor_releases()
release_data <- parse_bioconductor_releases(html_content)

The function below will retrieve the versions of bioconductor package corresponding to bioconductor version. In the example below, we find the versions 2.20.0 of flowCore package for the bioconductor version 3.21

Note: This function is not able to find all the archived versions for a Bioconductor package

fetch_bioconductor_package_info("3.21", "flowCore")

This function below gets the flowCore package version for all version of Bioconductor

html_content <- fetch_bioconductor_releases()
release_data <- parse_bioconductor_releases(html_content)
result_bio <- get_bioconductor_package_url("flowCore", "2.18.0", release_data)

head(result_bio$all_versions, n=2)

result_bio$last_version

result_bio$bioconductor_version_package

result_bio$url

result_bio$archived