Return information about Posit's (and some other) R builds for Linux

Description

Return information about Posit's (and some other) R builds for Linux

Usage

linux_distros()

Details

linux_distros() caches its results in the current R session. To clear the cache restart R or set the R_VERSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment variable to 0.

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

• id: The distro ID, e.g. ubuntu-2404.

• aliases: A list column of character vectors with alternative names for the distro. Alternative names starting and ending with a forward slash are regular expressions.

• name: The full name of the distro, e.g. ⁠Red Hat Enterprise Linux⁠.

• version: The version of the distro, e.g. 24.04 for Ubuntu, or 9 for RHEL.

• codename: The codename of the distro, e.g. focal for Ubuntu 20.04.

• url: The URL of the distro's homepage.

• docker: The name of the official Docker image for the distro, e.g. ubuntu:20.04.

• eol: The end-of-life date of the distro, or NA if unknown.

• retired: whether the distro version is retired for Posit and R-hub.

• aarch64: whether aarch64 builds are available for this distro. Possible values are posit (builds are available from Posit), r-hub (builds are available from R-hub), none (no builds are available).

• ppm_binaries: whether PPM binaries are available for this distro.

• ppm_aarch64: whether aarch64 PPM binaries are available for this distro.

• ppm_url: The URL of the PPM binaries for this distro.

Examples

linux_distros()