rOpenSci Package Registry

What is this

This repository contains 2 files that define the official rOpenSci package suite: our registry for R-universe: the official list of rOpenSci packages, identified by the package name and git url (updated hourly).

The rOpenSci package suite consists of all R packages in the ropensci and ropenscilabs GitHub organizations, except for packages listed in exclude list, plus some extra packages listed in not_transferred.json.

The CI automatically updates the packages.json file using the makeregistry package.

Generating packages.json

The code to re-generate packages.json is in the makeregistry package. The build_ropensci_packages_json() function works as follows:

1. It queries the GitHub API for all repositories in ropensci and ropenscilabs.
2. It removes entries from the exclude list
3. It adds packages listed in not_transferred.json
4. Saves the final list in packages.json

This function should take less then a minute to complete, be very reliable, and we run it frequently.

More metadata on rOpenSci packages

For this we now use the R-universe API.