[R] reverse dep of a package

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 19:38:19 CEST 2015


On 28/04/2015 1:04 PM, carol white wrote:
> yes, reverse dependency. All the reverse dependancies on the main web
> page of the packages are generated by CRAN?

Yes.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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> On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 28/04/2015 8:54 AM, carol white via R-help wrote:
> 
>> Hi,How to cite reverse dependancies in the NAMESPACE file in building
> a package?
> 
> 
> That doesn't make sense.  How could you predict which packages will
> depend on yours?
> 
> Perhaps you mean something different by "reverse dependency".  The
> standard definition is that if B depends on A, then A is a dependency of
> B, and B is a reverse dependency of A.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
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