The goal of batata is to help R users manage R packages removals. For
example, imagine you’re attending tomorrow an R meet up in which you’ll
experiment many packages that you don’t want to keep. By the end of the
meet up, you’ll have to remember each installed package, its name (trust
me, packages’ names may be complicated). Further, each installed package
might come with a bunch of dependencies which makes the operations more
complicated. Using the batata package, you can just run
rm_today_packages() (one of many other functions), and you’re clean
for today. Before removing the packages, batata will prompt you to
confirm your decision (which adds a certain degree of security), you can
also run today_packages() to check all the today installed packages
before making a decision.
You can install the development version of batata from Github
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("feddelegrand7/batata")The fresh_start() function removes all your installed R packages.
Particularly useful when moving from an R version to another. This
function is quite dangerous, so you’ll be prompted twice to make sure
that you’re absolutely certain to run it.
today_packages() displays all the packages installed the day you’re
running that function and in parallel, rm_today_packages() removes the
corresponding packages.
yesterday_packages() displays all the packages installed the day
before you’re running that function and in parallel,
rm_yesterday_packages() removes the corresponding packages.
since_packages() displays the packages that you’ve installed according
to a specific date. It has two argument:
- date: the considered date in yyyy-mm-dd format ;
- position: whether to display the installed packages at that date, before that date or after that date.
rm_since_package() works similarly except that it removes the packages
instead of displaying them.
Suppose you want to check out the last 10 packages that you’ve installed, or, maybe you want to display the last installed package:
library(batata)
# The 10 last installed packages
latest_packages(n = 10)
#> packages modification_time
#> [1,] "batata" "2020-06-04 22:21:35"
#> [2,] "ggmosaic" "2020-06-04 16:33:51"
#> [3,] "productplots" "2020-06-04 16:33:51"
#> [4,] "assertthat" "2020-06-04 16:10:07"
#> [5,] "askpass" "2020-06-04 16:04:05"
#> [6,] "abind" "2020-06-04 16:04:05"
#> [7,] "abd" "2020-06-04 16:04:05"
#> [8,] "dplyr" "2020-06-04 15:43:27"
#> [9,] "reactR" "2020-06-01 08:45:02"
#> [10,] "shinyalert" "2020-05-31 21:51:12"
# The last package installed
latest_packages(n = 1)
#> packages modification_time
#> [1,] "batata" "2020-06-04 22:21:35"Please note that the batata project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms. If you encounter any bug or if you want an improvement, please feel free to open an Issue.