Idea: browse_package()

[pat-s]

EDIT: This was aimed to be an issue in usethis, not pkgdown. Can someone please transfer it? Thanks and sorry. 😆

I often find myself in the situation wanting to browse the pkgdown site of a package rather than its GitHub or CRAN site.

I am currently using browseURL(desc::desc_get_urls()[1]) for this which opens the pkgdown site if it exists in the URL field and comes first. If missing, the GitHub page is opened. If no URL field exists, it errors obviously.

Some pkgs do not have a URL field at all and while usethis::browse_github() already falls back to usethis::browse_cran(), I have the feeling that a wrapper function like browse_package() could be helpful.

Essentially it would try to look for a pkgdown page first, fall back to the GitHub page and last to the CRAN page.

[jayhesselberth]

Closed by r-lib/usethis#1102

[pat-s]

Closed by r-lib/usethis#1102

This is a different FR. I'll open this one again in {usethis} then.