Dirk Eddelbuettel: ciw 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package!
Happy to share that ciw is now on CRAN! I had tooted a little bit
about it, e.g., here.
What it provides is a single (efficient) function
incoming() which summarises the state of the incoming
directories at CRAN. I happen
to like having these things at my (shell) fingertips, so it goes along
with (still draft) wrapper
ciw.r that will be part of the next littler release.
For example, when I do this right now as I type this, I see
edd@rob:~$ ciw.r
Folder Name Time Size Age
<char> <char> <POSc> <char> <difftime>
1: waiting maximin_1.0-5.tar.gz 2024-03-13 22:22:00 20K 2.48 hours
2: inspect GofCens_0.97.tar.gz 2024-03-13 21:12:00 29K 3.65 hours
3: inspect verbalisr_0.5.2.tar.gz 2024-03-13 20:09:00 79K 4.70 hours
4: waiting rnames_1.0.1.tar.gz 2024-03-12 15:04:00 2.7K 33.78 hours
5: waiting PCMBase_1.2.14.tar.gz 2024-03-10 12:32:00 406K 84.32 hours
6: pending MPCR_1.1.tar.gz 2024-02-22 11:07:00 903K 493.73 hours
edd@rob:~$ r. Good enough for me. From a well-connected EC2 instance
it is about 800ms on the command-line. When I do I from here inside an R
session it is maybe 700ms. And doing it over in Europe is faster still.
(I am using ping=FALSE for these to omit the default sanity
check of can I haz networking? to speed things up. The check adds
another 200ms or so.)
The function (and the wrapper) offer a ton of options too this is
ridiculously easy to do thanks to the docopt
package:
edd@rob:~$ ciw.r -x
Usage: ciw.r [-h] [-x] [-a] [-m] [-i] [-t] [-p] [-w] [-r] [-s] [-n] [-u] [-l rows] [-z] [ARG...]
-m --mega use 'mega' mode of all folders (see --usage)
-i --inspect visit 'inspect' folder
-t --pretest visit 'pretest' folder
-p --pending visit 'pending' folder
-w --waiting visit 'waiting' folder
-r --recheck visit 'waiting' folder
-a --archive visit 'archive' folder
-n --newbies visit 'newbies' folder
-u --publish visit 'publish' folder
-s --skipsort skip sorting of aggregate results by age
-l --lines rows print top 'rows' of the result object [default: 50]
-z --ping run the connectivity check first
-h --help show this help text
-x --usage show help and short example usage
where ARG... can be one or more file name, or directories or package names.
Examples:
ciw.r -ip # run in 'inspect' and 'pending' mode
ciw.r -a # run with mode 'auto' resolved in incoming()
ciw.r # run with defaults, same as '-itpwr'
When no argument is given, 'auto' is selected which corresponds to 'inspect', 'waiting',
'pending', 'pretest', and 'recheck'. Selecting '-m' or '--mega' are select as default.
Folder selecting arguments are cumulative; but 'mega' is a single selections of all folders
(i.e. 'inspect', 'waiting', 'pending', 'pretest', 'recheck', 'archive', 'newbies', 'publish').
ciw.r is part of littler which brings 'r' to the command-line.
See https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html for more information.
edd@rob:~$ This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.
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