R: Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

getCranDescription {miniCRAN} | R Documentation

## Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

### Description

Scrape DESCRIPTION from CRAN for each pkg.

### Usage

    getCranDescription(pkg, repos = getOption("repos"), type = "source",
      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()`.
`pkgs` | Character vector of packages to download

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    getCranDescription(c("igraph", "ggplot2", "XML"),
      repos = c(CRAN = getOption("minicran.mran"))
    )

    ## End(Not run)

[Package miniCRAN version 0.2.10 Index]