On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 2:21 AM wrote:
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> Maciej:
>
> There are other packages that query the CRAN site (cranlogs, etc.). So it
> seems the queries/fetches are generally allowed. I can only find a couple
> relevant mentions in the CRAN policies:
[...]
For the record, the cranlogs package does
Could pkgsearch http://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/ help with what you're doing,
as it can queries all versions of CRAN packages? See
http://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/reference/cran_package_history.html for the
docs of the function cran_package_history().
It does not scrape CRAN pages, it uses an
Maciej:
There are other packages that query the CRAN site (cranlogs, etc.). So it
seems the queries/fetches are generally allowed. I can only find a couple
relevant mentions in the CRAN policies:
"Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an
informative message if the r
If you need only DESCRIPTION, you can get it from github/cran - just open the
file in any package and see how its web address is formed. There is a small
delay between a package appearing on CRAN and it being mirrowed on github/CRAN
though.
For caching strategies you could check, for example, r
