Reverse dependencies?

[sckott]

Seems like these aren't collected, or am I missing something. perhaps there is a route that has these e.g., like /pkg/reverse_deps

[gaborcsardi]

Yes, updating them is not trivial, that's why it is not there. It is not hard of course, but I need to write some external JS code to do it, because the DB is not very good at these sort of things.

[sckott]

okay, close if you want

[gaborcsardi]

No, I want to implement them, so let's leave this open.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Scott Chamberlain <notifications@github.com

wrote:

okay, close if you want

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
https://github.com/metacran/crandb/issues/37#issuecomment-156214148.

[maelle]

Is there no easier way to retrieve rev deps than

pkgsearch::advanced_search(Package = "rversions")$revdeps
#> [1] 2
pkgsearch::advanced_search(Imports = "rversions")$package
#> [1] "packageRank" "devtools"

^{Created on 2019-12-10 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

I visit CRAN pages of packages just to see reverse dependencies, and am wondering whether I should change my workflow. :-)

[gaborcsardi]

They are in crandb, e.g. http://crandb.r-pkg.org/-/revdeps/ps so we could have a function that returns them.