Gábor Csárdi

No, I want to implement them, so let's leave this open. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Scott Chamberlain wrote: > > okay, close if you want >...

They are in crandb, e.g. http://crandb.r-pkg.org/-/revdeps/ps so we could have a function that returns them.

This will be great, but I also don't think that it is needed before the release. Also, I'll probably not do it, so it is up to you. :)

I don't think that's even desired now, tough, because I am not 100% committed to the advanced search interface. Maybe there is a better one that does not create invalid...

I think it is very much in scope. I wish we could index everything, especially documentation. But that would need a much bigger search server, indexing needs a lot of...

Thanks! This is however a bug, `pkgsearch:::is_package_version` should not fail for valid version numbers.

> Honestly, as mentioned in #39, valid version numbers can be almost anything. For very old packages, yes. Otherwise in the past 20 years or so they have to look...

YEs, please. Thanks! Just have an `is_string` instead, where `is_string` is like `desc:::is_string`.

No, that's different. I mean this: https://github.com/metacran/crandb#-releasepkgsversion-packages-that-were-current-at-an-r-release

but it is also true that the rversions api could be merged into the crandb api