get_description_repo: Get _DESCRIPTION_ files for R repos

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Get DESCRIPTION files for R repos

Description

Get the DESCRIPTION file information in data.table format for all R packages in standard R repositories (CRAN, Bioc). Can return a subset of results for specific packages as well.

Usage

get_description_repo(
  refs = NULL,
  db = NULL,
  repo = c("BioCsoft", "BioCann", "BioCexp", "BioCworkflows", "CRAN"),
  version = BiocManager::version(),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

refs	Reference for one or more GitHub repository in owner/repo format (e.g."neurogenomics/rworkflows"), or an R package name (e.g. "rworkflows").
db	A data.table of R package metadata generated by biocPkgList.
repo	character(1) The requested Bioconductor repository. The default is to pull from the "BioCsoft" repository. Possible repositories include "BioCsoft", "BioCexp", "BioCworkflows", "BioCann", and "CRAN". Note that not all repos are available for all versions, particularly older versions.
version	character(1) or package_version indicating the Bioconductor version (e.g., "3.22"). Defaults to the "current version" provided by BiocManager::version(). The keywords "release" and "devel" are also accepted.
verbose	Print messages.

Value

Named list of desc objects.

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