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, e.g. "http://cran.us.r-project.org". Passed to available.packages
type
Possible values are (currently) "source", "mac.binary" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed on other platforms. Passed to download.packages.
path
Destination download path. This path is the root folder of your new repository.