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| check_field | Syntactical check of a DESCRIPTION field |
| cran_ascii_fields | The DESCRIPTION fields that are supposed to be in plain ASCII encoding |
| cran_valid_fields | A list of DESCRIPTION fields that are valid according to the CRAN checks |
| dep_types | DESCRIPTION fields that denote package dependencies |
| description | Read, write, update, validate DESCRIPTION files |
| desc_add_author | Add an author to Authors@R in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_add_me | Add the current user as an author to DESCRIPTION |
| desc_add_role | Add a role to one or more authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_add_to_collate | Add one or more files to the Collate field, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_change_maintainer | Change maintainer of the package, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_del | Remove fields from a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_del_author | Remove one or more authors from DESCRIPTION. |
| desc_del_collate | Delete the Collate field from DESCRIPTION |
| desc_del_dep | Remove a package dependency from DESCRIPTION |
| desc_del_deps | Remove all dependencies from DESCRIPTION |
| desc_del_from_collate | Remove files from the Collate field. |
| desc_del_role | Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_fields | List all fields in a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_get | Get a field from a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_get_author | Query authors by role in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_get_authors | Query all authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_get_collate | Query the Collate field in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_get_deps | List all package dependencies from a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_get_maintainer | Query the package maintainer in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_has_fields | Check if some fields are present in a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_normalize | Normalize a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_print | Print the contents of a DESCRIPTION file to the screen |
| desc_reformat_fields | Reformat fields in a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_reorder_fields | Reorder fields in a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_set | Set one or more fields in a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_set_authors | Set authors in Authors@R, in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_set_collate | Set the Collate field in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_set_dep | Add a package dependency to a DESCRIPTION file |
| desc_set_deps | Set all package dependencies in DESCRIPTION |
| desc_to_latex | Converts a DESCRIPTION file to LaTeX |
| desc_validate | Validate a DESCRIPTION file |