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R's DESCRIPTION fields documented in Writing R Extensions
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| Additional_repositories | |
| Author | |
| Authors@R | |
| Biarch | |
| BugReports | |
| BuildVignettes | |
| Built | |
| ByteCompile | |
| Classification/ACM | |
| Classification/ACM-2012 | |
| Classification/JEL | |
| Classification/MSC | |
| Classification/MSC-2010 | |
| Collate | |
| Collate.unix | |
| Collate.windows | |
| Contact | |
| Copyright | |
| Date | |
| Depends | |
| Description | |
| Encoding | |
| Enhances | |
| Imports | |
| KeepSource | |
| Language | |
| LazyData | |
| License | |
| LinkingTo | |
| MailingList | |
| Maintainer | |
| NeedsCompilation | |
| Note | |
| OS_type | |
| Package | |
| Packaged | |
| Priority | |
| RdMacros | |
| StagedInstall | |
| Suggests | |
| SystemRequirements | |
| Title | |
| Type | |
| URL | |
| UseLTO | |
| Version | |
| VignetteBuilder |
The fields Note, Contact, and MailingList are not used by R directly, but are mentioned as commonly used fields.
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Source as of 2021-06-09 (R 4.1.0): https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file