# Manipulate DESCRIPTION Files

## Documentation for package ‘desc’ version 1.2.0

- DESCRIPTION file.

## Help Pages

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
desc | Read a DESCRIPTION file
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_remotes | Add locations in the Remotes field in 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_add_urls | Add URLs to the URL field in DESCRIPTION
desc_bump_version | Increase the version number in DESCRIPTION
desc_change_maintainer | Change maintainer of the package, in DESCRIPTION
desc_clear_remotes | Remove all locations from the Remotes field of DESCRIPTION
desc_clear_urls | Remove all URLs from the URL field of 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_remotes | Delete locations from the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
desc_del_role | Delete a role of an author, in DESCRIPTION
desc_del_urls | Delete URLs from the URL field 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_built | Query the built field in DESCRIPTION
desc_get_collate | Query the Collate field in DESCRIPTION
desc_get_deps | List all package dependencies from a DESCRIPTION file
desc_get_field | Get a single field from a DESCRIPTION file, fail if not found
desc_get_maintainer | Query the package maintainer in DESCRIPTION
desc_get_or_fail | Get a single field from a DESCRIPTION file, fail if not found
desc_get_remotes | List the locations in the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
desc_get_urls | Query the URL field in DESCRIPTION
desc_get_version | Query the package version in DESCRIPTION
desc_has_dep | Check for a dependency
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_set_remotes | Set the Remotes field in DESCRIPTION
desc_set_urls | Set the URL field in DESCRIPTION
desc_set_version | Set the package version in DESCRIPTION
desc_to_latex | Converts a DESCRIPTION file to LaTeX
desc_validate | Validate a DESCRIPTION file