package DESCRIPTION file — pac

CRAN package DESCRIPTION file taken locally or remotely from GITHUB CRAN mirror or CRAN website. By default works for the newest package version.

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 version of a package. Default: NULL
at: Date from which to take the version. Default: NULL
local: logical if to use local repository (or newest remote packages). Default: FALSE
lib.loc: character vector of search paths with local packages. Default: .libPaths()
repos: character vector repositories URLs to use. Used only for the validation. Default https://cran.rstudio.com/

list with names proper for DESCRIPTION file fields.

Results are cached for 30 minutes with memoise package.

if (FALSE) {
pacs::pac_description("dplyr", version = "0.8.0")
pacs::pac_description("dplyr", at = as.Date("2019-02-01"))
}