readSourceFromRForge {SweaveListingUtils}R Documentation

readSourceFromRForge

Description

reads a source file (usually ‘.R’ oder ‘.Rd’) from R forge repository

Usage

readSourceFromRForge(PKG, TYPE, FILENAME, PROJECT)

Arguments

PKG character; name of package to be downloaded
TYPE character; style of the source code — "man" or "R"
FILENAME character; the name of the source file to be downloaded
PROJECT character; the name of the R-Forge project

Details

reads source file from R-forge [from most recent revision in trunc], but caches the result in a global list in the namespace of package SweaveListingUtils, so if the URL has already been cached, the cached copy is used. The cached copies are stored in list .CacheFiles; the current length of this list is stored in .CacheLength.

Value

the character content of the source file

Author(s)

Peter Ruckdeschel Peter.Ruckdeschel@itwm.fraunhofer.de

Examples

readSourceFromRForge("distr","R","AllClasses.R","distr")

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