draft.software to handle packages installed from r-universe

[iagomosqueira]

Summary

Packages installed using the CRAN-like repositories built by r-universe, are handled as binaries, but they contain a git hash reference in the DECSRIPTION. This could be used to create a SOFTWARE.bib entry that links to github and the hash.

This is done by the renv package, for example, as explained here.

task list

• [ ] MAKE draft.software able to identify a package as installed from github
• [ ] EXTRACT and use the tags added by r-universe build script: RemoteUrl, (RemoteRef) and RemoteSha

This came from a brief chat with @colinpmillar

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