Extract tarball of a package into temp directory and return path to extracted

Description

Extract tarball of a package into temp directory and return path to extracted package

Usage

extract_tarball(tarball, exdir = fs::path_temp())

Arguments

tarball: Full path to local tarball of an R package.
exdir: Directory into which tarballs are to be extracted.

Seealso

Other misc: [pkgstats_fn_names](pkgstats_fn_names)()

Concept

misc

Value

Path to extracted version of package (in tempdir()).

Examples

f <- system.file ("extdata", "pkgstats_9.9.tar.gz", package = "pkgstats")
path <- extract_tarball (f)