one thing to keep in mind for the GitHub mirror is that archived packages are not marked any differently, e.g.
https://github.com/cran/rgeos I typically use Henrik's URLs but you need to set up some retry logic. The rsync approach sounds nice, think I'll try that next time :) On Sun, May 18, 2025, 7:59 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Also, and while it won't help for the non-standard field in question here, > the standard fields are all compiled into what tools::CRAN_package_db() > returns. Very handy for many use cases, and possibly not as well known as > it > should be. > > Dirk > > -- > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
