Retrieves All Versions of a Package

The pkg_versions function queries the CRAN archive, and returns a data frame of package version information for all releases of the package. This function may be used to understand what versions of a package are available. It is often used in conjunction with pkg_info to get a general overview of a package.

pkg_versions(pkg)

Arguments

pkg

A package name to return versions for. Pass the package name as a quoted string. This parameter is required.

Value

A data frame with one row per package release, showing the version and date of each release. If the package is not found on CRAN, a message will be generated and the function will return NULL.

See also

Other pdiff: pkg_cache(), pkg_diff(), pkg_info(), pkg_stability(), print.pcache(), print.pdiff(), print.pdiff_score(), print.pinfo()

Examples

# View package versions
pkg_versions("rsample")
#    Package Version             FileName    Release   Size
# 1  rsample   1.2.1 rsample_1.2.1.tar.gz 2024-03-25 320.9K
# 2  rsample   1.2.0 rsample_1.2.0.tar.gz 2023-08-23   321K
# 3  rsample   1.1.1 rsample_1.1.1.tar.gz 2022-12-07   318K
# 4  rsample   1.1.0 rsample_1.1.0.tar.gz 2022-08-08   306K
# 5  rsample   1.0.0 rsample_1.0.0.tar.gz 2022-06-24   268K
# 6  rsample   0.1.1 rsample_0.1.1.tar.gz 2021-11-08   274K
# 7  rsample   0.1.0 rsample_0.1.0.tar.gz 2021-05-08   274K
# 8  rsample   0.0.9 rsample_0.0.9.tar.gz 2021-02-17   269K
# 9  rsample   0.0.8 rsample_0.0.8.tar.gz 2020-09-23   261K
# 10 rsample   0.0.7 rsample_0.0.7.tar.gz 2020-06-04   248K
# 11 rsample   0.0.6 rsample_0.0.6.tar.gz 2020-03-31   299K
# 12 rsample   0.0.5 rsample_0.0.5.tar.gz 2019-07-13   297K
# 13 rsample   0.0.4 rsample_0.0.4.tar.gz 2019-01-07   254K
# 14 rsample   0.0.3 rsample_0.0.3.tar.gz 2018-11-20   254K
# 15 rsample   0.0.2 rsample_0.0.2.tar.gz 2017-11-12   339K
# 16 rsample   0.0.1 rsample_0.0.1.tar.gz 2017-07-08   180K