pac_description: package DESCRIPTION file

In pacs: Supplementary Tools for R Packages Developers

package DESCRIPTION file

Description

CRAN package DESCRIPTION file taken locally or remotely from GITHUB CRAN mirror or CRAN website.

Usage

pac_description(
  pac,
  version = NULL,
  at = NULL,
  local = FALSE,
  lib.loc = .libPaths(),
  repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/"
)

Arguments

pac	character a package name.
version	character package version, by default the is_installed version. Default: NULL
at	Date. Default: NULL
local	logical if to use local library. Default: FALSE
lib.loc	character vector, used optionally when local is equal TRUE. Default: .libPaths()
repos	character vector URLs of the repositories to use. Used only for the validation. Default https://cran.rstudio.com/

Value

list with names proper for DESCRIPTION file fields.

Note

Results are cached for 30 minutes with memoise package.

Examples

## Not run: 
  pacs::pac_description("dplyr", version = "0.8.0")
  pacs::pac_description("dplyr", at = as.Date("2019-02-01"))

## End(Not run)

pacs documentation built on May 11, 2022, 1:09 a.m.