getModuleVersion {SpaDES.core}

Find the latest module version from a SpaDES module repository

Description

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

Usage

getModuleVersion(name, repo)

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

## S4 method for signature '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.

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).

Value

numeric_version

Author(s)

Alex Chubaty

See Also

zipModule() for creating module ‘.zip’ folders.