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PURL Type Definition: cran

  • Type Name: CRAN
  • Description: CRAN R packages
  • Schema ID: https://packageurl.org/types/cran-definition.json

PURL Syntax​

The structure of a PURL for this package type is:

pkg:cran/<name>@<version>?<qualifiers>#<subpath>

Repository Information​

Namespace definition​

  • Requirement: Prohibited
  • Note: there is no namespace

Name definition​

  • Requirement: Required
  • Case Sensitive: Yes
  • Native Label: name
  • Note: The name is the package name and is case sensitive, but there cannot be two packages on CRAN with the same name ignoring case.

Version definition​

  • Requirement: Optional
  • Native Label: version
  • Note: The version is the package version.

Examples​

  • pkg:cran/A3@1.0.0
  • pkg:cran/rJava@1.0-4
  • pkg:cran/caret@6.0-88