metacran
is a collection of projects to allow better tooling
around CRAN R packages. It contains a number of projects.
The following ones are stably working and can be considered
beta software:
- Web site to browse and search CRAN packages.
- CRAN @ github, read-only mirror of CRAN at github.
crandb
, a database of CRAN R packages, with an HTTP API, and an R package to access it from R.- CRAN package search,
based on
crandb
. This is now included in the Metacran web site at http://www.r-pkg.org. seer
, R package to search for CRAN packages.r-builder
Scripts to use Travis or another CI to build and check R packages with various R versions, including R-devel.cranlogs
A database and R package for daily R package download counts from the RStudio CRAN mirror.rversions
An R package to query R versions and their release dates from the R project SVN repository.
metacran
also contains some experimental packages and tools:
spareserver
R package to fallback to another web server if the main one is not responding.cranny
packer
templates to build the metacran servers.