Package 'RcppAPT'

Title: 'Rcpp' Interface to the APT Package Manager
Description: The 'APT Package Management System' provides Debian and Debian-derived Linux systems with a powerful system to resolve package dependencies. This package offers access directly from R. This can only work on a system with a suitable 'libapt-pkg-dev' installation so functionality is curtailed if such a library is not found.
Authors: Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.0.9.1
Built: 2024-09-07 17:14:20 UTC
Source: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppapt

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Rcpp Interface to the APT Package Manager

Description

Debian-based systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, or their derivatives use the APT Package Manager, commonly via programs such as apt-get, apt-cache or other frontends written against the APT libraries.

This package offers a simple interface from R, mostly so that the package management system can be queried.

Details

The APT library API is described in the package libapt-pkg-doc.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>

References

See the libapt-pkg-doc package on a Debian-based system.


Return Build-Depends for given packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function returns the Build-Depends for a set of packages matching the given regular expression.

Usage

buildDepends(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".")

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A character vector containing package names is returned.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

buildDepends("r-cran-rcpp$")

Display information for given packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function displays the information for a set of packages matching the given regular expression. It corresponds somewhat to apt-cache showpkg pkgname but displays more information.

Usage

dumpPackages(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".")

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A boolean is returned indicating whether or not the given regular expression could be matched to source packages – but the function is invoked ' for the side effect of displaying information.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

dumpPackages("^r-(base|doc)-")

Return Depends for given packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function returns the Depends for a set of packages matching the given regular expression.

Usage

getDepends(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".")

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A data frame with four columns listing (source) package, dependend packages, comparison operator, and, where available, minimal version.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

reverseDepends("r-cran-rcpp$")

Retrieve Names of All Installable Packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function returns the names of installable packages for a given regular expression.

Usage

getPackages(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".").

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A data frame with columns containing the package name and version (or NA if unavailable).

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

getPackages("^r-(base|doc)-")

Test for Existence of Given Package

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function tests whether a given package exists.

Usage

hasPackages(pkg)

Arguments

pkg

A character vector with name of the package

Value

A boolean result vector is returned indicating if the package at the given position is available.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

hasPackages(c("r-base-core", "somethingThatDoesNotExist"))

Return Reverse-Depends for given packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function returns the Reverse-Depends for a set of packages matching the given regular expression.

Usage

reverseDepends(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".")

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A data frame with two column listing packages and, where available, minimal version.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

reverseDepends("r-cran-rcpp$")

Display information for given packages

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function displays the information for a set of packages matching the given regular expression. The output corresponds to apt-cache showsrc pkgname.

Usage

showSrc(regexp = ".")

Arguments

regexp

A regular expression for the package name(s) with a default of all (".")

Details

Note that the package lookup uses regular expressions. If only a single package is desired, append a single $ to terminate the expression. Ie r-cran-rcpp$ will not return results for r-cran-rcpparmadillo and r-cran-rcppeigen.

Value

A boolean is returned indicating whether or not the given regular expression could be matched to source packages – but the function is invoked ' for the side effect of displaying information.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

showSrc("^r-(base|doc)-")
showSrc("r-cran-rcpp")  # also finds RcppEigen and RcppArmadillo
showSrc("r-cran-rcpp$") # just Rcpp

Test for Suitability of System

Description

The APT Package Management system uses a data-rich caching structure. This accessor function tests whether a given package exists.

Usage

suitable()

Details

CRAN does not manage to blacklist this package for builds where it has little to no chance of building (macOS amongt them). So we now build everywhere whether it makes sense or not.

Value

A boolean result vector is returned indicating if the system is making any sense at all.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

suitable()