A series of helpers to access and deal with GitHub packages
DESCRIPTIONFileVersionV(file, purge = getOption("Require.purge", FALSE)) DESCRIPTIONFileOtherV(file, other = "RemoteSha") getGitHubDESCRIPTION(pkg, purge = getOption("Require.purge", FALSE))
file | A file path to a DESCRIPTION file |
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purge | Logical. Should all caches be purged Default is
Internally, there are calls to |
other | Any other keyword in a DESCRIPTION file that preceeds a ":". The rest of the line will be retrieved. |
pkg | A character string with a GitHub package specification (c.f. remotes) |
getGitHubDESCRIPTION
retrieves the DESCRIPTION file from GitHub.com