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[RobertMyles]

Would it be possible to include a simple function that shows the user all the packages in the tidyverse package? There's no quick way to see it in the docs, and as I assume the package will be evolving, I think it would be handy to have a function like this for users to see what packages they can load.

[RobertMyles]

Maybe something like this? (I'm not too good at regex, I'm sure there must be a more elegant way to do this)

capture.output(
  cat(readLines(paste0(.libPaths(), "/tidyverse/DESCRIPTION")))) %>% 
  stringr::str_extract_all(., pattern = "Imports[[:print:]]*", 
                           simplify = T) %>% 
  stringr::str_extract_all(., "[[:print:]]*License",
                           simplify = T) %>% 
  gsub("License", "", .) %>% 
  gsub("Imports: ", "", .) %>% 
  gsub("\\s", "", .) %>% 
  cat()

broom,DBI,dplyr,forcats,ggplot2,haven,httr,hms,jsonlite,lubridate,magrittr,modelr,purrr,readr,readxl,stringr,tibble,rvest,tidyr,xml2

[hadley]

packageDescription() would be a better starting place, and would be even easier to use the desc package.

[RobertMyles]

What about this?

tidyverse_packages <- function(){
  x <- packageDescription("tidyverse", fields = "Imports")
  x <- gsub("\n", " ", x)
  message(paste0("tidyverse contains: ", x, collapse = "\n"))
}

> tidyverse_packages()
tidyverse contains: broom, DBI, dplyr, forcats, ggplot2, haven, httr, hms, jsonlite, lubridate, magrittr, modelr, purrr, readr, readxl, stringr, tibble, rvest, tidyr, xml2

[hadley]

Ooops, I guess it was there already, I just needed to export it.

[RobertMyles]

Ah ok! Good to have this function, thanks.