It would be nice to see such immutable package version links:
E.g.:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.1
https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.0
In the CRAN package web pages themselves, and specifically in the "Old
Sources: httr Section":
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 11:54, Joris Meys wrote:
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> FWIW, you can get the URL and extract the link with extension from there.
> Archived packages are always tarballs, so that makes the following possible:
>
> url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.0;
>
> library(RCurl)
>
> pkgurl <-
FWIW, you can get the URL and extract the link with extension from there.
Archived packages are always tarballs, so that makes the following possible:
url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.0;
library(RCurl)
pkgurl <- gsub(".*(https://cran.+\\.tar.gz).*",
"\\1",
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 11:40, Kurt Hornik wrote:
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> > Kurt Wheeler writes:
>
> Try e.g.
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.1
> https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.0
This is a nice feature that I didn't know. I recently proposed
enforcing this scheme in Fedora's
> Kurt Wheeler writes:
Try e.g.
https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.1
https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr=1.3.0
-k
> Hello, I hope the is the right list to send this suggestion to.
> I was wondering if it might be possible to have CRAN store the most current
> version of a
Hello, I hope the is the right list to send this suggestion to.
I was wondering if it might be possible to have CRAN store the most current
version of a package's source tarball at a location that does not change.
As an example, the source tarball for `httr` is stored at
