Get Package Version

Get the latest version of pkgs by as_of_date. Could take a while to run if input pkgs contains multiple packages.

get_pkg_version(
  pkgs = PKG_GLOBAL_ENV$PA_PKGS,
  as_of_date = PKG_GLOBAL_ENV$PKG_FREEZE_DATE
)

Arguments

pkgs

character vector of the names of packages for which to query available versions
as_of_date

(character, convertible to date) date of interest to subset versions of pkgs

Value

a data.table with the following columns:

  • package: the name of the package

  • version: the version of the package

  • date: the date of the version release

Examples

get_pkg_version(
    pkgs = c("data.table", "knitr"),
    as_of_date = "2019-01-01"
)
#>       package version       date
#> 1: data.table  1.11.8 2018-09-30
#> 2:      knitr    1.21 2018-12-10