列出包的依赖关系,不管它是如何加载或安装的

List the dependencies of a package regardless of how it is loaded or installed

我正在寻找一种巧妙的方法来以编程方式获取包的 Imports:Depends: 包。诀窍是无论包是否为

,该方法都应该有效
  1. 已安装或刚刚加载devtools::load_all(),或
  2. 已附加或仅可通过命名空间使用。

所需功能:

package_deps("dplyr")
## [1] "assertthat" "bindrcpp"   "glue"       "magrittr"   "methods"    "pkgconfig" 
## [7] "rlang"      "R6"         "Rcpp"       "tibble"     "utils" 

注意版本号都被去掉了。

我正在写这个 post 因为它看起来应该已经存在了。 (毕竟,install.packages() 需要类似的功能。)我宁愿不必自己管理所有特殊情况。

我维护的 pacman 包是这样做的:

if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
pacman::p_depends(dplyr)

$Imports
 [1] "assertthat" "bindrcpp"   "glue"       "magrittr"   "methods"   
 [6] "pkgconfig"  "rlang"      "R6"         "Rcpp"       "tibble"    
[11] "utils"     

$LinkingTo
[1] "Rcpp"     "BH"       "bindrcpp" "plogr"   

$Suggests
 [1] "bit64"          "covr"           "dbplyr"         "dtplyr"        
 [5] "DBI"            "ggplot2"        "hms"            "knitr"         
 [9] "Lahman"         "mgcv"           "microbenchmark" "nycflights13"  
[13] "rmarkdown"      "RMySQL"         "RPostgreSQL"    "RSQLite"       
[17] "testthat"       "withr"