Gather package metadata — package_metadata • echodeps

Gather metadata from the DESCRIPTION file of each R package and construct a data.table. By default, returns metadata for all echoverse packages.

Usage

package_metadata(
  pkgs = "echoverse",
  fields = c("Package", "Title", "Description", "URL", "Version", "Depends", "Imports",
    "Suggests", "Remotes", "SystemRequirements"),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

pkgs: Packages to gather metadata for.
fields: DESCRIPTION file fields. If a field is missing for a given package, will fill with NULL.
verbose: Print messages.

Value

data.table of metadata.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
meta <- echodeps::package_metadata()
} # }