Check encoding of new or existing fields
Syntactical check of a DESCRIPTION field
The DESCRIPTION fields that are supposed to be in plain ASCII encoding
A list of DESCRIPTION fields that are valid according to the CRAN checks
DESCRIPTION fields that denote package dependencies
desc: Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files
Read a DESCRIPTION file
Add an author to Authors@R in DESCRIPTION
Add a GitHub user as an author to DESCRIPTION
Add the current user as an author to DESCRIPTION
Add an ORCID to one or more authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION
Add locations in the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
Add a role to one or more authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION
Add one or more files to the Collate field, in DESCRIPTION
Add URLs to the URL field in DESCRIPTION
Increase the version number in DESCRIPTION
Change maintainer of the package, in DESCRIPTION
Remove all locations from the Remotes field of DESCRIPTION
Remove all URLs from the URL field of DESCRIPTION
Coerce Author and Maintainer Fields to Authors@R
Remove fields from a DESCRIPTION file
Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION.
Delete the Collate field from DESCRIPTION
Remove a package dependency from DESCRIPTION
Remove all dependencies from DESCRIPTION
Remove files from the Collate field.
Delete locations from the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION
Delete URLs from the URL field in DESCRIPTION
List all fields in a DESCRIPTION file
Get a field from a DESCRIPTION file
Query authors by role in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION
Query all authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION
Query the built field in DESCRIPTION
Query the Collate field in DESCRIPTION
List all package dependencies from a DESCRIPTION file
Get a single field from a DESCRIPTION file, fail if not found
Query the package maintainer in DESCRIPTION
List the locations in the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
Query the URL field in DESCRIPTION
Query the package version in DESCRIPTION
Check for a dependency
Check if some fields are present in a DESCRIPTION file
Normalize a DESCRIPTION file
Print the contents of a DESCRIPTION file to the screen
Reformat fields in a DESCRIPTION file
Reorder fields in a DESCRIPTION file
Set one or more fields in a DESCRIPTION file
Set authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION
Set the Collate field in DESCRIPTION
Add a package dependency to a DESCRIPTION file
Set all package dependencies in DESCRIPTION
Set the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
Set the URL field in DESCRIPTION
Set the package version in DESCRIPTION
Converts a DESCRIPTION file to LaTeX
Validate a DESCRIPTION file
Read, write, update, validate DESCRIPTION files