tools (version 3.1.0)

dependsOnPkgs: Find Reverse Dependencies

Description

Find ‘reverse’ dependencies of packages, that is those packages which depend on this one, and (optionally) so on recursively.

Usage

dependsOnPkgs(pkgs, dependencies = c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"), recursive = TRUE, lib.loc = NULL, installed = installed.packages(lib.loc, fields = "Enhances"))

Arguments

pkgs
a character vector of package names.
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?
lib.loc
a character vector of R library trees, or NULL for all known trees (see .libPaths).
installed
a result of calling installed.packages.

Value

A character vector of package names, which does not include any from pkgs.

Examples

Run this code
## there are few dependencies in a vanilla R installation:
## lattice may not be installed
dependsOnPkgs("lattice")

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