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getDescription.Package: Gets the description of the package

Description

Gets the description of the package. Not to be mixed up with *getDescriptionFile().

Usage

"getDescription"(this, replaceNewlines=" ", ...)

Arguments

replaceNewlines
If a character string, all newline characters are replaced with this string. Otherwise not.
...
Not used.

Value

A character string.

See Also

For more information see Package.

Examples

Run this code
  pkg <- Package("base")
  print(getDescription(pkg))

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