Find Reverse Dependencies of a CRAN Package — cran_revdep • risk.assessr

This function finds the reverse dependencies of a CRAN package, i.e., packages that depend on the specified package.

Usage

cran_revdep(
  pkg,
  dependencies = c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests", "LinkingTo"),
  recursive = FALSE,
  ignore = NULL,
  installed = NULL
)

Arguments

pkg: A character string representing the name of the package.
dependencies: A character vector specifying the types of dependencies to consider. Default is c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests", "LinkingTo").
recursive: A logical value indicating whether to find dependencies recursively. Default is FALSE.
ignore: A character vector of package names to ignore. Default is NULL.
installed: A matrix of installed packages.

Value

deps - A sorted character vector of package names that depend on the specified package.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
cran_revdep("ggplot2")
} # }