R: Find Installed Packages

installed.packages {utils}

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Find Installed Packages

Description

Find (or retrieve) details of all packages installed in the specified libraries.

Usage

installed.packages(lib.loc = NULL, priority = NULL,
                   noCache = FALSE, fields = NULL)

Arguments

lib.loc

character vector describing the location of R library trees to search through, or NULL for all known trees (see .libPaths).

priority

character vector or NULL (default). If non-null, used to select packages; "high" is equivalent to c("base", "recommended"). To select all packages without an assigned priority use priority = "NA".

noCache

Do not use cached information.

fields

a character vector giving the fields to extract from each package's DESCRIPTION file in addition to the default ones, or NULL (default). Unavailable fields result in NA values.

Details

installed.packages scans the ‘DESCRIPTION’ files of each package found along lib.loc and returns a matrix of package names, library paths and version numbers.

Note: this works with package names, not bundle names.

The information found is cached (by library) for the R session and specified fields argument, and updated only if the top-level library directory has been altered, for example by installing or removing a package. If the cached information becomes confused, it can be refreshed by running installed.packages(noCache = TRUE).

Value

A matrix with one row per package, row names the package names and column names "Package", "LibPath", "Version", "Priority", "Bundle", "Contains", "Depends", "Suggests", "Imports" and "Built" (the R version the package was built under). Additional columns can be specified using the fields argument.

Examples

str(ip <- installed.packages(priority = "high"))
ip[, c(1,3:5)]
plic <- installed.packages(priority = "high", fields="License")
## what licenses are there:
table( plic[,"License"] )

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