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available

Discover packages available for installation.

Discover packages available for installation.

available(pattern = "", include_installed = TRUE)

`pattern`	character(1) pattern to filter (via `grep(pattern=...)`) available packages; the filter is not case sensitive.
`include_installed`	logical(1) When `TRUE`, include installed packages in list of available packages; when `FALSE`, exclude installed packages.

character() vector of package names available for installation.

if (interactive()) {
  avail <- BiocManager::available()
  length(avail)

  BiocManager::available("bs.*hsapiens")
}

Access the Bioconductor Project Package Repository

v1.30.15

Artistic-2.0

Authors

Martin Morgan [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-8148>), Marcel Ramos [ctb, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-0582>)

Initial release