Pass on filters argument to pkgAvail() in makeRepo()

[hturner]

pkgAvail() has a filters argument that is passed on to utils::available.packages() L182. However makeRepo() calls pkgAvail() without this argument L62.

This means that, unless the available_packages_filters option is set, makeRepo() uses the default filters: c("R_version", "OS_type", "subarch", "duplicates"). It would be helpful if makeRepo() could take and pass on the filters argument.

This issue came up when making a repo with binaries for different platforms: carpentriesoffline/offlinedatasci#135 - the "subarch" filter excluded packages compiled for different platforms. It is possible to work round this by setting the available_packages_filters option, but enabling the argument in makeRepo would be more direct and consistent with pkgAvail().

[andrie]

Thank you for this report.

I have pushed a change to the dev branch (without any changes to tests).

Could you please check out dev and let me know if this is what you need?

[hturner]

Thanks for the quick fix! It is working as I expect. Here's an example run on Windows that demonstrates my original issue before and after:

> repos <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
> type <- "mac.binary.big-sur-arm64"
>
> dir.create(pth <- file.path(tempdir(), "miniCRAN"))
> makeRepo("fs", pth, repos, type, "4.4")
Created new folder: C:/Users/Heather/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpUZOSav/miniCRAN/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4
Warning in utils::download.packages(pkgs = pkgs, destdir = destdir, available = available,  :
  no package ‘fs’ at the repositories
character(0)
> list.files(pth, recursive = TRUE)
character(0)
> makeRepo("fs", pth, repos, type, "4.4", filters = "duplicates")
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/fs_1.6.4.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 625516 bytes (610 KB)
downloaded 610 KB

[1] "C:/Users/Heather/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpUZOSav/miniCRAN/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/fs_1.6.4.tgz"
> list.files(pth, recursive = TRUE)
[1] "bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/fs_1.6.4.tgz"
[2] "bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/PACKAGES"    
[3] "bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/PACKAGES.gz" 
[4] "bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/PACKAGES.rds"
> unlink(pth, recursive = TRUE)

But for testing you could do something non-OS-specific, e.g.

> repos <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
> type <- "source"
> dir.create(pth <- file.path(tempdir(), "miniCRAN"))
> makeRepo("tripack", pth, repos, type) 
Created new folder: C:/Users/Heather/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpUZOSav/miniCRAN/src/contrib
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/tripack_1.3-9.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 127697 bytes (124 KB)
downloaded 124 KB

[1] "C:/Users/Heather/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpUZOSav/miniCRAN/src/contrib/tripack_1.3-9.1.tar.gz"
> makeRepo("tripack", pth, repos, type, filters = "license/restricts_use")
Warning in utils::download.packages(pkgs = pkgs, destdir = destdir, available = available,  :
  no package ‘tripack’ at the repositories
character(0)
> unlink(pth, recursive = TRUE)

{tripack} has been on CRAN since 1998, so is a reasonable test candidate, but of course it could disappear from CRAN so best to make any such test not run on CRAN.