argparse

2.3.1

Command Line Optional and Positional Argument Parser

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Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor L. DavisFirst published 2013-01-2924 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A command line parser to be used with 'Rscript' to write "#!" shebang scripts that gracefully accept positional and optional arguments and automatically generate usage.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("argparse", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("trevorld/r-argparse")

Development version from trevorld/r-argparse. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-argparse

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-argparse

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

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Repository

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Dependencies

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6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.6.0

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findpython jsonlite R6

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People (4)

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Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.4

Authors (1)

Trevor L. Davis

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.4

Contributors (3)

Python Software Foundation

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Allen Day

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Paul Newell

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Trevor L Davis. Ports examples from the argparse Python module by the Python Software Foundation. Ports examples from the getopt package by Allen Day.

no longer listed · 0.5.0 to 1.1.1

Trevor L Davis

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 2.2.3

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-01-29
Total releases: 24 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 35 KB
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