getPacksAndViews {biocViews}R Documentation

Parse VIEWS file for views and packages

Description

Given a repository URL, download and parse the VIEWS file.

Usage

getPacksAndViews(reposURL, vocab, defaultView, local=FALSE)

Arguments

reposURL character vector giving the URL of a CRAN-style repository containing a VIEWS file at the top-level.
vocab A graph-class object representing the ontologyof views. This graph should be a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
defaultView A string giving the term to use for packages that do not list a term of their own via the biocViews field in the ‘DESCRIPTION’ file.
local logical indicating whether certain links should be absolute (using reposURL) or relative.

Value

A list with named elements:
views: Vector of view memberships. Names are package names.
pkgList: A list of PackageDetail-class objects.

Author(s)

Seth Falcon


[Package biocViews version 1.10.6 Index]