Get git information for a given package across all Bioconductor releases

Get the package version and git commit data for all releases in Bioconductor.

Usage

get_package_release_info(packagename)

Arguments

packagename

a single valid Bioconductor package name

Value

tibble of release information or NULL if package is not found

Details

Utilizes data from the info parquet file to retrieve the equivalent git information for every available Bioconductor release of a package. This include the git commit hash and last commit date along with the package version.

See also

get_bbs_table

Author

Lori Shepherd

Examples

get_package_release_info("BiocFileCache")
#> # A tibble: 11 × 5
#>    Package       Version git_branch   git_last_commit git_last_commit_date
#>    <chr>         <chr>   <chr>        <chr>           <dttm>              
#>  1 BiocFileCache 2.0.0   RELEASE_3_13 280a8f9         2021-05-19 16:26:36 
#>  2 BiocFileCache 2.2.1   RELEASE_3_14 cc91212         2022-01-20 13:21:33 
#>  3 BiocFileCache 2.4.0   RELEASE_3_15 2c00eee         2022-04-26 15:39:42 
#>  4 BiocFileCache 2.6.1   RELEASE_3_16 fdeb0ad         2023-02-17 11:39:09 
#>  5 BiocFileCache 2.8.0   RELEASE_3_17 d088b32         2023-04-25 14:53:05 
#>  6 BiocFileCache 2.10.2  RELEASE_3_18 c95edcc         2024-03-27 16:42:13 
#>  7 BiocFileCache 2.12.0  RELEASE_3_19 a655653         2024-04-30 14:56:59 
#>  8 BiocFileCache 2.14.0  RELEASE_3_20 66862c5         2024-10-29 15:18:07 
#>  9 BiocFileCache 2.16.2  RELEASE_3_21 22fec96         2025-08-25 12:44:02 
#> 10 BiocFileCache 3.0.0   RELEASE_3_22 81fd6e0         2025-10-29 15:37:29 
#> 11 BiocFileCache 3.1.0   devel        c4f8ba6         2025-10-29 15:37:29