pkgcache error messages are better now.
pkgcache now does not compress the metadata cache files, which makes loading the metadata cache faster.
No user visible changes.
Starting from version 2.0.0 pkgcache returns data frames instead
of tibbles. While data frames and tibbles are very similar, they are not
completely compatible. To convert the output of pkgcache to tibbles call
the as_tibble() function on them.
pkgcache loads the pillar package at startup, if available, and uses it to improve the printing of pkgcache data frames.
parse_packages() now automatically determines the
type of the PACKAGES* file, instead of relying on file
extensions.
pkgcache can now call back again to a PACKAGES file
if PACKAGES.gz is not available. (This fixes a regression
in pkgcache 1.3.0.)
pkgcache now uses HTTP 1.1 on Linux as well, because of crashes with HTTP/2.
pkgcache now supports file:///, repositories,
i.e. repositories on the local file system.
pkgcache now works better on M1 macs.
current_r_platform() does a much better job now. In
particular, on Linux it includes the name and release of the
distribution. The new current_r_platform_data() function
returns the platform information as a data frame, instead of a single
string.
Metadata is now more accurate for Windows packages that are typically not multi-arch any more on R 4.2.0 (current R-devel).
pkgcache has its own DCF metadata parser now, which is much
faster, and it parses all fields of PACAKGES* and
DESCRIPTION files.
New parse_installed() function to get the metadata
of all installed packages in a library. It uses the new DCF parser, so
it is quite fast.
meta_cache_list() and related functions now
correctly set the rversion column of source R packages to
"*".
pkgcache now uses HTTP 1.1 on macOS, to work around a possible slowdown issue with libcurl for HTTP/2.
pkgcache now uses our extra metadata (file sizes, system
requirements, etc.) for RStudio Package Manager (RSPM) repositories as
well, as long as they are named RSPM in
getOption("repos").
tools::R_user_dir() cache location. To clean up
your old cache call
pkgcache:::cleanup_old_cache_dir().No user visible changes.
New repo_add(), repo_get(),
repo_resolve() and with_repo() functions to
query and manipulate repositories.
meta_cache_*() functions now handle
getOption("repos") changes correctly.
Failed metadata downloads now do not trigger metadata updates (#52).
New bioc_release_version(),
bioc_devel_version(), bioc_repos() helper
functions to deal with Bioconductor repositories.
Metadata cache functions, e.g. meta_cache_deps()
etc. now allow specifying the dependency types in all lowercase
(#54).
package_cache now does not fail if the web server
does not send an Etag header when downloading
packages.
package_cache has now much relaxed HTTP timeouts,
and handles downloading many packages (slowly) much better.
The package download progress bar can now be suppressed by
setting the pkg.show_progress option to
FALSE.
New repo_status() function to query the status and
response time of CRAN-like repositories.
New bioc_version() and
bioc_version_map() functions to query Bioconductor
repositories.
pkgcache now does not fail if some repositories do not provide some package types.
New current_r_platform(),
default_cran_mirror() and default_platforms()
functions.
pkgcache now works for R 4.0.x macOS binaries.
HTTP timeouts are now much better, and by default they are defined in terms of download speed, instead of total download time (#29).
pkgcache now tries to download metadata from the
PACKAGES file, if it cannot find PACKAGES.gz
(@timmsm,
#27).
pkgcache is now less verbose when updating or loading metadata.
Fix handling of Bioconductor versions and repositories, see README for the details.
Now different versions of pkgcache, that potentially have different metadata format, can share the same metadata cache directory.
Fix concurrency issues when the async API is used multiple times in the same event loop.
Make package compatible with tibble >= 2.0.0.
Add meta_cache_summary() and a
summary() method for cranlike_metadata_cache.
Return information about a metadata cache instance.