miniCRAN (version 0.0-16)

getCranDescription: Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

Description

Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

Usage

getCranDescription(pkg, repos = getOption("repos"), type = "source", path,
  pkgs = pkgDep(pkg, repos = repos, type = type))

Arguments

pkg

Character vector of packages.

repos

URL(s) of the 'contrib' sections of the repositories. Passed to available.packages

type

Passed to available.packages

path

Destination download path

pkgs

Character vector of packages to download

See Also

Other miniCRAN: pkgAvail; pkgDep

Examples

getCranDescription(c("igraph", "ggplot2", "XML"), 
  repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com")
)