Hi
I want to create a dependence diagram of a subset of the packages on CRAN
and would therefore like to read the DEACRIPTION files into a list. The list
should be as follow for each package:
- package name: list
- Package: character
- Version: character
- Date: character
- ...
- Depends: character vector
- Suggests: character vector
- ...
I downloaded all packages and extracted all DESCRIPTION, but I am struggling
with the creation of the list (I tried using scan(what=list(),
multi.line=TRUE) with different things in list()). Before I spend to much
time on it, is there a function which could help me or has somebody done
something similar (I assume the DESCRIPTION file ust be somewhere be read
dueing install.packages()?
Cheers,
Rainer
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