pkgdepends

0.9.1

Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

2packages depend

82.5Kdownloads / year

16.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2021-03-1616 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Find recursive dependencies of 'R' packages from various sources. Solve the dependencies to obtain a consistent set of packages to install. Download packages, and install them. It supports packages on 'CRAN', 'Bioconductor' and other 'CRAN-like' repositories, 'GitHub', package 'URLs', and local package trees and files. It caches metadata and package files via the 'pkgcache' package, and performs all 'HTTP' requests, downloads, builds and installations in parallel. 'pkgdepends' is the workhorse of the 'pak' package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("pkgdepends", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lib/pkgdepends")

Development version from r-lib/pkgdepends. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-pkgdepends

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-pkgdepends

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-pkgdepends

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.19

16.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-16
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-21
7 OK · 6 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 447 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 93%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 81%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

82.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,433 · ~226/day · ~6.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.2K30 days

22K90 days

82.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/pkgdepends

135Stars

46Forks

73Open issues

4Open PRs

16Releases

1,725Commits

23Contributors

1,725 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-09 · 1342026-07-13 · 135

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

33 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (15)

callr cli curl desc filelock jsonlite lpSolve pkgbuild pkgcache processx ps R6statsutilszip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

asciicastcodetoolscovr debugme fansi fs gh gitcreds glue htmlwidgets mockery pak pingr (>= 2.0.0)rmarkdown rstudioapi spelling svglite testthat (>= 3.2.0)tibble webfakes withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

shinylive pak

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Posit Software, PBC

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.1 to 0.6.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-16
Total releases: 16 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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