Read DESCRIPTION as a Dataframe

Source: R/pkg.R

Read the DESCRIPTION file as a 2-column dataframe for the header name along with the value/s following the colon of that header. To make these values in the R console, see makeDescription.

read_description(path = getwd())

See also

str_replace tibble unite

Other DESCRIPTION functions: make_description_links(), make_description(), make_imports()

Other R Package functions: read_namespace()

Examples

read_description()

#> Warning: cannot open file '/Users/meerapatel/GitHub/packages/easyBakeOven/docs/reference/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory
#> Error in file(con, "r"): cannot open the connection