lev-kuznetsov/raven-repository

Raven R package snapshot repository

raven-repository

Meta repository for versioned R packages

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You can deploy your own snapshot repository on openshift; sign up for openshift and download the rhc tool, then (here I named the application raven):

rhc app create raven diy                        # Create application
rhc cartridge add postgresql-9.2 -a raven       # Add the persistence cartridge
rhc app stop -a raven                           # Stop it
cd raven
git rm -r .openshift README.md diy misc         # Remove templates
git commit -am "removed templates"
git remote add upstream https://github.com/dfci-cccb/raven-repository
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master # Clone this repo
git push                                        # Deploy

After that you can point at http://raven-<domain>.rhcloud.com/repository and greet an empty []. Snapshots are taken every morning just after 2AM, wait for the next day for packages to show up. Once snapshots take place you can query for available packages at http://raven-<domain>.rhcloud.com/repository, query for available snapshots at http://raven-<domain>.rhcloud.com/repository/<package>, and see the meta information for obtaining the package at http://raven-<domain>.rhcloud.com/repository/<package>/<version>. You can also query by ISO date instead of the version, for example: http://raven-<domain>.rhcloud.com/repository/NMF/2014-11-22 will return the youngest version available which is older than the date specified. Unfortunately, just as you may not go back in time, you won't be able to query for versions before the first snapshot date.