countdeps

The goal of countdeps is to provide a simple helper function for counting the number of package dependencies in a project.

Installation

You can install the development version of countdeps:

devtools::install_github('slopp/countdeps')

Example

To count the number of dependencies, simply run this command in your project directory:

countdeps::countdeps()

✔ Using project: /Users/sean/Documents/Sandbox/adverse-events
◯ Counting Dependencies ... Hold on, this may take a moment!
◯ Almost done ...
✔ Found 17 top-level package dependencies and  70 implied package dependencies for a total 87 dependencies!

✔ Using packages from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.3/Resources/library

DBI             1.0.0
DT              0.4.18
bigrquery       1.0.0
blastula        0.2.1
callr           3.1.1.9000
dbplyr          1.2.1
dplyr           0.7.7
flexdashboard   0.5.1.1
formatR          1.5
ggplot2         3.0.0.9000
ggthemes        3.4.0
knitr           1.20
openfda         1.7.0.9000
rmarkdown       1.10
shiny           1.2.0
stringr         1.3.1
tufte            0.4
BH              1.65.0-1
MASS            7.3-45
Matrix          1.2-8
R6              2.2.2
RColorBrewer    1.1-2
Rcpp            0.12.19.3
assertthat      0.2.0
backports       1.1.2
base64enc       0.1-3
bindr           0.1.1
bindrcpp        0.2.2
cli             1.0.1.9000
colorspace      1.3-2
commonmark       1.5
crayon          1.3.4
crosstalk       1.0.0
curl             3.2
dichromat       2.0-0
digest          0.6.13
downloader       0.4
evaluate        0.10.1
...

Details

This package uses the packrat package to determine the number of packages in use by a project. Packrat accomplishes this task using a number of hueristics that scan code looking for things like library calls.