From |uc@r @end|ng |rom |edor@project@org  Wed Sep  4 22:00:19 2019
From: |uc@r @end|ng |rom |edor@project@org (=?UTF-8?Q?I=C3=B1aki_Ucar?=)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 22:00:19 +0200
Subject: [Rd] reverse dependency checks
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 14:53, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel
<r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
>
> I remember there was advice about a server that one could use for reverse dependency
> checks, but I forgot to write it down.  (Or I did save the info and forgot where I saved
> it...)   I have been doing the checks for survival myself, but the count is getting out of
> hand (663, not counting bioconductor).
>
> Any pointers?

You could try Yihui's crandalf [1]. Locally, I don't know what you are
using, but there are a few alternatives. Notably, Dirk's prrd [2] (the
only one that I tried myself and I can thus recommend), Gabor's
revdepcheck [3] and R's brand new tools::check_packages_in_dir().

[1] https://github.com/yihui/crandalf
[2] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/prrd
[3] https://github.com/r-lib/revdepcheck

I?aki



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