Parse and return the VIEWS file for a Bioconductor Release

Source: R/biocVIEWSdb.R

The function parses and returns the VIEWS file for a specified Bioconductor version, either "release" or "devel". The VIEWS file contains metadata about Bioconductor packages, including information about their categories, topics, and other details.

biocVIEWSdb(
  version = BiocManager::version(),
  pkgType = c("software", "data-experiment", "data-annotation", "workflows")
)

Arguments

version

character(1) or package_version indicating the Bioconductor version (e.g., "3.22"). Defaults to the "current version" provided by BiocManager::version(). The keywords "release" and "devel" are also accepted.

pkgType

character() The type of packages for which to get information for. Values can be one or more of the following:

  • software: Software packages

  • data-experiment: Experiment data packages

  • data-annotation: Annotation data packages

  • workflows: Workflow packages

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
biocVIEWSdb(pkgType = "software")
}