downstream_dependency

Get downstream 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.
The systematic analysis on the CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem is described in
<doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111610>. From 'pkgndep' version 2.0.0, the heaviness
database includes snapshots of the CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystems for many old R versions.

Zuguang Gu

pkgndep

Analyze Dependency Heaviness of R Packages

downstream_dependency function

<dl>
 <dt>package</dt>
<dd>Package name.</dd> <dt>online</dt>
<dd>Whether use the newest package database directly from CRAN/Bioconductor or the pre-computated package database? The version of the pre-computated package database can be set via <code>pkgndep_opt</code>$heaviness_db_version.</dd>
</dl>

Arguments

Get downstream dependency for a package — downstream_dependency

<dl>


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

 <dt>online</dt>
<dd>Whether use the newest package database directly from CRAN/Bioconductor or the pre-computated package database? The version of the pre-computated package database can be set via <code>pkgndep_opt</code>$heaviness_db_version.</dd>


</dl>

downstream_dependency: Get downstream dependency for a package

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