wood_dependencies: Find dependencies from multiple repositories

In woodendesc: Find Packages and Their Dependencies in Any 'R' Repository

Find dependencies from multiple repositories

Description

This function queries the selected repositories for dependencies of the selected packages and returns the first working occurence.

Usage

wood_dependencies(packages, repos = "cran")

Arguments

packages

character() Names of the packages to query for.

repos

character() A vector of repositories to query. The following values are available: "cran", meaning CRAN; "bioc@release", meaning Bioconductor, where release should be replaced with a valid Bioconductor release code or one of "release", "devel"; "github/user", meaning GitHub, where user should be replaced with a valid user or organization name (e.g. turtletopia); "runiverse@universe", meaning R-universe, where universe should be replaced with a valid universe name (e.g. turtletopia); "local#index", meaning a local library, where index should be replaced with an integer index of a library in base::.libPaths() or an all keyword; "core", meaning base R packages; a URL if none of the above is matched.

Value

A list named after queried packages, each element being a data frame with three columns, all in string format:

• package (package name),

• version (minimum version requirement or NA if none),

• type (dependency type, e.g. "Imports").

See Also

Functions for all repositories: wood_packages(), wood_versions()

Functions that query package dependencies: wood_bioc_dependencies(), wood_core_dependencies(), wood_cran_dependencies(), wood_github_dependencies(), wood_local_dependencies(), wood_runiverse_dependencies(), wood_url_dependencies()

Examples

wood_dependencies("stats", "core")
# Multiple packages are also possible:
wood_dependencies(
  c("tibble", "Biostrings", "woodendesc"),
  repos = c("runiverse@turtletopia", "cran", "bioc@1.5")
)
# By default, only CRAN is queried:
wood_dependencies("versionsort")

woodendesc documentation built on April 18, 2023, 5:09 p.m.