Listing R Package Dependencies Without Installing Packages
dependencies, package, r, version-control
Solution
You can use the result of the `available.packages` function. For example, to see what `ggplot2` depends on :
pack <- available.packages()
pack["ggplot2","Depends"]
Which gives :
[1] "R (>= 2.14), stats, methods"
Note that depending on what you want to achieve, you may need to check the `Imports` field, too.
Problem
Is there a simple way to get a list of R package dependencies (all recursive dependencies) for a given package, without installing the package and it's dependencies? Something similar to a fake install in portupgrade or apt.