automatically parse R package versions

[philipp-baumann]

Hi, I would suggest to use some automated way to parse R package versions. For opusreader2, for example, something along the line of

curl https://spectral-cockpit.r-universe.dev/opusreader2/json

could be used, and afterwards some jq CLI based filtering in the pipe would be useful to extract versions on the current master build as deployed on r-universe. Regarding CRAN, we plan to release a first version roughly in June 2023 (meaning then a DESCRIPTION filter can be used for official purposes).

Cheers,
Philipp

[philipp-baumann]

or maybe even with curl R and the R interface of jq, https://docs.ropensci.org/jqr/

[zecojls]

Hi Philip, thanks for the suggestions. Our current manual is always knitted manually and pushed to this repository, and then GitHub actions release the version online. I never worked with such auto-pulling of information, so I wonder if this operation you suggested can be placed together within the GitHub actions or some auto-knit function. Would you happen to know how to do this?

[philipp-baumann]

Hi @zecojls sorry I am a bit late with responding because of traveling. Yeah, good question how to technically implement it. I think some GitHub actions to set up pure jq or its R interface would be a good enhancement. Have you thought about using quarto? As far as I can tell, this could also be set up with GH actions.

[philipp-baumann]

@zecojls shall I draft something, i.e., making a PR for this feature?

[zecojls]

Hi Philipp, I would greatly appreciate it if you start drafting something.