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Package Contents and Description

Description

Parses and returns the ‘CONTENTS’ and ‘DESCRIPTION’ file of a package.

Usage

package.contents(pkg, lib = .lib.loc)
package.description(pkg, lib = .lib.loc, fields = NULL)

Arguments

pkg

A character string with the package name.

lib

A character vector with path names of R package libraries.

fields

A character vector of fields to return (if other fields occur in the file they are ignored.

See Also

parse.dcf

Examples

package.contents("mva")

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