devtools (version 1.6.1)

revdep: Reverse dependency tools.

Description

Tools to check and notify maintainers of all CRAN and bioconductor packages that depend on the specified package.

Usage

revdep(pkg = NULL, dependencies = c("Depends", "Imports", "Suggests",
  "LinkingTo"), recursive = FALSE, ignore = NULL)
revdep_maintainers(pkg = ".")
revdep_check(pkg = NULL, recursive = FALSE, ignore = NULL, ...)

Arguments

pkg

package name

dependencies

a character vector listing the types of dependencies, a subset of c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances"). Character string "all" is shorthand for that vector.

recursive

logical: should reverse dependencies of reverse dependencies (and so on) be included?

ignore

A character vector of package names to ignore. These packages will not appear in returned vector.

...

Other parameters passed on to check_cran

Examples

revdep("ggplot2")

revdep("ggplot2", ignore = c("xkcd", "zoo"))

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