# Statistics from DESCRIPTION files

## Description

Statistics from DESCRIPTION files

## Usage

```r
desc_stats(path)
```

## Arguments

* `path`: Directory to source code of package being analysed

## Seealso

Other stats: 
`[loc_stats](loc_stats)()`,
`[pkgstats](pkgstats)()`,
`[pkgstats_summary](pkgstats_summary)()`,
`[rd_stats](rd_stats)()`

## Concept

stats

## Value

A `data.frame` with one row and 16 columns extracting various
information from the 'DESCRIPTION' file, include websites, tallies of
different kinds of authors and contributors, and package dependencies.

## Examples

```r
f <- system.file ("extdata", "pkgstats_9.9.tar.gz", package = "pkgstats")
# have to extract tarball to call function on source code:
path <- extract_tarball (f)
desc_stats (path)
```