[R-pkg-devel] Read CRAN package DESCRIPTION without downloading source

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Also, and while it won't help for the non-standard field in question here,
the standard fields are all compiled into what tools::CRAN_package_db()
returns. Very handy for many use cases, and possibly not as well known as it
should be.

Dirk

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