shoulders {thankr}

Find Out Who Maintains the Packages you Use

Description

This function helps to identify what packages you depend on. It finds the maintainers and the number of packages they maintain.

Usage

shoulders(where = c("session", "library", "package"), package,
  include_dependencies = TRUE)

Arguments

where

either look in the current loaded "session", your whole "library" or for a specific "package"

package

if where is "package" then this must be a character vector of positive length

include_dependencies

if where is "package" then use this to include all dependencies of the package. Otherwise it will just return the maintainer.

Details

Note, if you do a package lookup you connect to a CRAN mirror.

Value

A data.frame showing all packages you depend on with these three columns:

• maintainer The maintainer as in the DESCRIPTION file

• no_packages The number of packages of that maintainer

• packages A comma separated list of those packages

Examples

## Not run: 
# identifies the packages currently loaded in your session
shoulders() # equal to shoulders("session")

# shows all maintainers of your package library
shoulders("library")

# find out about a specific package
# by default it lists all dependencies of that package as well
shoulders("package", "utils", include_dependencies = FALSE)
shoulders("package", "utils")

## End(Not run)