This release contains all package metadata in CRAN (except the archived ones) and BIOC (1.8 to 3.16) up to 2022117.
The columns are
name = Column(String(50), primary_key=True) # name of package, CRAN style
desc = Column(Text) #including depends, imports, suggests, linking to, and others
repo = Column(String(4)) # CRAN or BIOC
bioc_ver = Column(String(8)) # 3.0 to 3.16
bioc_category = Column(String(16)) # bioc, data/annotation, data/experiment