tools::check_packages_in_dir() to
check the reverse dependencies of an R package hosted on Github.
rev_check(repo = "yihui/knitr", check_args = "--no-manual", reverse = list(which = "all"), xvfb = TRUE, Ncpus = parallel::detectCores())R CMD check, or a list of length two of such character
vectors to be used for checking packages and reverse dependencies,
respectively."repos",
"which", or "recursive", giving the repositories to
use for locating reverse dependencies (default:
getOption("repos")), the types of reverse dependencies
(default: c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"), with
shorthands "most" and "all" as for
package_dependencies), and indicating whether to also
check reverse dependencies of reverse dependencies and so on
(default: FALSE), or NULL (default), in which case no
reverse dependencies are checked.