Hi

I want to create a dependence diagram of a subset of the packages on CRAN
and would therefore like to read the DEACRIPTION files into a list. The list
should be as follow for each package:

- package name: list
  - Package: character
  - Version: character
  - Date: character
  - ...
  - Depends: character vector
  - Suggests: character vector
  - ...

I downloaded all packages and extracted all DESCRIPTION, but I am struggling
with the creation of the list (I tried using scan(what=list(),
multi.line=TRUE) with different things in list()). Before I spend to much
time on it, is there a function which could help me or has somebody done
something similar (I assume the DESCRIPTION file ust be somewhere be read
dueing install.packages()?

Cheers,

Rainer


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