packageDescription(pkg, lib.loc=NULL, fields=NULL, drop=TRUE, encoding="")
pkg
is installed.
The default searches the standard library locations.
TRUE
,
and the length of
fields
is one,
then a single character string is returned instead of an object
of class
"packageDescription".
.
"packageDescription"
.
There is a
print
method to display this.
The object
"packageDescription"
object includes
a
"file"
attribute that indicates the file system
location of the DESCRIPTION file.
If
drop=TRUE
and the
fields
is of length one,
a single character string containing the
fields
value from the DESCRIPTION file is returned.
packageDescription("main") # the main S+ package description packageDescription("maps") # the maps package description