getDescription.Package: Gets the description of the package

getDescription.PackageR Documentation

Gets the description of the package

Description

Gets the description of the package. Not to be mixed up with *getDescriptionFile().

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Package'
getDescription(this, replaceNewlines=" ", ...)

Arguments

replaceNewlines

If a character string, all newline characters are replaced with this string. Otherwise not.

...

Not used.

Value

A character string.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

For more information see Package.

Examples

  pkg <- Package("base")
  print(getDescription(pkg))

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