On 26 February 2019 at 20:38, Uwe Ligges wrote: | | | On 26.02.2019 18:59, Iñaki Ucar wrote: | > On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 18:38, Oliver Dechant <dech...@dal.ca> wrote: | >> | >> Somewhat relatedly is there a way to monitor when a package has new | >> reverse depends or imports added? | > | > I don't know of any service currently providing this, if that's what | > you're asking. But it's pretty straightforward to set up a cron job to | > monitor the DESCRIPTION file of interest. | | Well, if *reverse* dependencies are of interest, rather monitor he | package's CRAN webpage which lists reverse dependencis.
Or access the already-parsed-and-ready-to-use info: R> crandb <- tools::CRAN_package_db() R> colnames(crandb) [1] "Package" "Version" "Priority" [4] "Depends" "Imports" "LinkingTo" [7] "Suggests" "Enhances" "License" [10] "License_is_FOSS" "License_restricts_use" "OS_type" [13] "Archs" "MD5sum" "NeedsCompilation" [16] "Additional_repositories" "Author" "Authors@R" [19] "Biarch" "BugReports" "BuildKeepEmpty" [22] "BuildManual" "BuildResaveData" "BuildVignettes" [25] "Built" "ByteCompile" "Classification/ACM" [28] "Classification/ACM-2012" "Classification/JEL" "Classification/MSC" [31] "Classification/MSC-2010" "Collate" "Collate.unix" [34] "Collate.windows" "Contact" "Copyright" [37] "Date" "Description" "Encoding" [40] "KeepSource" "Language" "LazyData" [43] "LazyDataCompression" "LazyLoad" "MailingList" [46] "Maintainer" "Note" "Packaged" [49] "RdMacros" "SysDataCompression" "SystemRequirements" [52] "Title" "Type" "URL" [55] "VignetteBuilder" "ZipData" "Published" [58] "Path" "X-CRAN-Comment" "Reverse depends" [61] "Reverse imports" "Reverse linking to" "Reverse suggests" [64] "Reverse enhances" "MD5sum" R> R> dim(crandb) [1] 13776 65 R> Now, if Oliver wants this _through time_ he will have snapshot it. The information provided is always 'as is' for 'right now'. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
