Find the latest module version from a SpaDES module repository

Modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/25485782/1380598.

getModuleVersion(name, repo)

# S4 method for class 'character,character'
getModuleVersion(name, repo)

# S4 method for class 'character,missing'
getModuleVersion(name)

Arguments

name

Character string giving the module name.

repo

GitHub repository name, specified as "username/repo". Default is "PredictiveEcology/SpaDES-modules", which is specified by the global option spades.moduleRepo. Only master/main branches can be used at this point.

Value

numeric_version

Details

getModuleVersion extracts a module's most recent version by looking at the module .zip files contained in the module directory. It takes the most recent version, based on the name of the zip file.

See the modules vignette for details of module directory structure (https://spades-core.predictiveecology.org/articles/ii-modules.html#module-directory-structure-modulename), and see our SpaDES-modules repo for details of module repository structure (https://github.com/PredictiveEcology/SpaDES-modules).

See also

zipModule() for creating module .zip folders.

Author

Alex Chubaty