p_information: Package Information

In pacman: Package Management Tool

Description

Provides the information from for a package from the NAMESPACE. Information may include: title, version, author, maintainer, description, depends, imports, suggests

Usage

p_information(package = "base", ..., fields = NULL)

p_info(package = "base", ..., fields = NULL)

Arguments

package	Name of the package to grab information for. Default is "base".
...	Names of fields (see fields argument) to extract.
fields	A character vector giving the tags of fields to return (for use inside of functions rather than ...).

Value

Returns a list of fields.

Note

Note that the output from p_information (when no fields are passed) prints pretty but is actually an accessible list (use names(p_info()) test).

See Also

packageDescription, p_information

Examples

p_information()
p_info()
names(p_info())
p_info()[names(p_info())]
p_info(pacman)
p_info(pacman, Author)
p_info(pacman, BugReports, URL)
p_info(pacman, fields = "Version")
## Not run: 
p_extract(p_info(ggplot2, "Depends"))
p_extract(p_info(ggplot2, "Imports"))
lapply(p_info(ggplot2, "Imports", "Depends", "Suggests"), p_extract)

## End(Not run)

pacman documentation built on May 2, 2019, 1:08 p.m.