extract-descfiles: Descfiles
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Descfiles

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Descfiles

Description

Extraction of DESCRIPTION files content

Usage

ReadDescfile(filename)
ReadCRANDescfile(package, version, datadir)
ReadGithubDescfile(repository, ref, datadir)
Descfiles(index, datadir)
ExtractDescriptionFiles(datadir, db="rdata", host="mongodb://localhost")

Arguments

`filename`	Filename of the DESCRIPTION file
`package`	Package name
`version`	Version of package
`repository`	Git repository name.
`ref`	Git repository reference (commit, branch or tag).
`index`	Repository index.
`datadir`	Directory where to store and extract the packages.
`db`	MongoDB database.
`host`	MongoDB host.

Value

ReadDescfiles returns a two or four column data.table with packages DESCRIPTION files keys and values, and package name and version given as parameters.

ReadCRANDescfiles reads DESCRIPTION file of a CRAN package.

ReadGithubDescfiles reads DESCRIPTION file of a Github R package.

Descfiles reads the DESCRIPTION file of all packages of index.

ExtractDescriptionFiles extracts all DESCRIPTION files missing in MongoDB.