parent_dependency

Get parent dependency for a package

A new metric named 'dependency heaviness' is proposed that measures the number
of additional dependency packages that a parent package brings to its child package
and are unique to the dependency packages imported by all other parents.
The dependency heaviness analysis is visualized by a customized heatmap.
The package is described in <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac449>. We have also performed
the dependency heaviness analysis on the CRAN/Bioconductor package ecosystem and the results
are implemented as a web-based database which provides comprehensive tools for
querying dependencies of individual R packages.

Zuguang Gu

pkgndep

Analyze Dependency Heaviness of R Packages

parent_dependency function

<dl>
 <dt>package</dt>
<dd>Package name.</dd> <dt>fields</dt>
<dd>Which fields in DESCRIPTION? Values should be in <code>Depends</code>, <code>Imports</code>, <code>LinkingTo</code>, <code>Suggests</code> and <code>Enhances</code>.</dd> <dt>snapshot</dt>
<dd>If it is <code>TRUE</code>, the package database generated on 2021-10-28 is used. If it is <code>FALSE</code>, the pakage database is directly retrieved from CRAN/Bioconductor.</dd>
</dl>

Arguments

Get parent dependency for a package — parent_dependency

<dl>


 <dt>package</dt>
<dd>Package name.</dd>

 <dt>fields</dt>
<dd>Which fields in DESCRIPTION? Values should be in <code>Depends</code>, <code>Imports</code>, <code>LinkingTo</code>, <code>Suggests</code> and <code>Enhances</code>.</dd>

 <dt>snapshot</dt>
<dd>If it is <code>TRUE</code>, the package database generated on 2021-10-28 is used. If it is <code>FALSE</code>, the pakage database is directly retrieved from CRAN/Bioconductor.</dd>


</dl>

parent_dependency: Get parent dependency for a package

Description

Usage

Value

Arguments

Details

Examples