Remove packages? about drat

[eddelbuettel]

Yes see the not-quite-done function pruneRepo.

I was waiting on @stewid to add rm functionality to git2r and awesome as he is he has long added it. As soon as that version hits CRAN I will use that in a package update.

Until then you can just feed the output of pruneRepo() into a manual git rm loop.

Thanks for your interest in drat.

[eddelbuettel]

Also note that cloning drat is one of several ways to set up a gh-pages branch with src/contrib. If you'd rather do it by hand, fine. As for PACKAGES "become inaccurate": Just re-ran the (base R) function to regenerate it, or even easier, do another insertPackage() call.

[piccolbo]

I guess I should have just read the code -- it's not that much -- but reading pruneRepo left me a little baffled, now it makes sense knowing that it doesn't have any side effects quite yet. Thanks for the clarifications.

[eddelbuettel]

My bad as it is mostly undocumented. I just knew that R itself already had that solved (because a PACKAGES file only ever has the newest, so it knows how to skip). Reading a directory is easy enough so that was straightforward. But not released yet...

If you have other API / helper suggestions let me know. Better yet pull-request them in ;-)