| parse.dcf {base} | R Documentation |
Parses text read from a file in Debian control file format, e.g., the `DESCRIPTION' or `CONTENTS' of a package.
parse.dcf(desc = NULL, file = "", fields = NULL, versionfix = FALSE)
text |
A character vector containing one line of the file in each element. |
file |
Name of the file to be parsed. |
fields |
A character vector of fields to return (if other fields occur in the file they are ignored. |
versionfix |
Logical, if TRUE than the version field is
truncated at the first whitespace character. |
If fields = NULL, a list with one element per entry is
returned. Each entry is a list of character vectors, one per field.
If fields are specified, then a character matrix with one row
per entry and one column per field is returned.