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Is there a packages.rds file like CRAN's https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/packages.rds #162

Closed urisohn closed 2 years ago

urisohn commented 2 years ago

I maintain groundhog, a package that brings version control to R package handling. I am about to launch v2.0.0 which will add github and gitlab packages, but it still does not work with bioconductor packages. I plan on adding this capabiliy on the next major release. To do so it would be useful to have a database with all packages and their dependencies on each version on bioconductor. Something like https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/packages.rds does such a file exist? I guess it is possible to scrape this information from the site, but seems much better to simply download the file if it exist. Thanks,

Uri

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lshep commented 2 years ago

We have a VIEWS file that is similar but not exact: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/VIEWS

That exists for release/devel or numeric version: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.13/bioc/VIEWS

urisohn commented 2 years ago

Perfect, thank you.

lshep commented 2 years ago

Please by advised that there is a VIEWS for each type of Bioconductor package. Those were for software but there is also: Experiment Data: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/data/experiment/VIEWS Annotation: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/data/annotation/VIEWS Workflows: https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/workflows/VIEWS