get_dep: Multiple types of dependencies

In crandep: Network Analysis of Dependencies of CRAN Packages

Multiple types of dependencies

Description

get_dep returns a data frame of multiple types of dependencies of a package

Usage

get_dep(name, type, reverse = FALSE)

Arguments

name	String, name of the package
type	A character vector that contains one or more of the following dependency words: "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances", up to letter case and space replaced by underscore. Alternatively, if 'type = "all"', all five dependencies will be obtained.
reverse	Boolean, whether forward (FALSE, default) or reverse (TRUE) dependencies are requested.

Value

A data frame of dependencies

See Also

get_dep_all_packages for the dependencies of all CRAN packages, and get_graph_all_packages for obtaining directly a network of dependencies as an igraph object

Examples

get_dep("dplyr", c("Imports", "Depends"))
get_dep("MASS", c("Suggests", "Depends", "Imports"), TRUE)

crandep documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 8:01 p.m.