R Observatory: Metrics for deepdep version 0.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

deepdep

0.4.4Package record

Visualise and Explore the Deep Dependencies of R Packages

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

84.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dominik RafaczCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for exploration of R package dependencies. The main deepdep() function allows to acquire deep dependencies of any package and plot them in an elegant way. It also adds some popularity measures for the packages e.g. in the form of download count through the 'cranlogs' package. Uses the CRAN metadata database http://crandb.r-pkg.org and Bioconductor metadata https://bioconductor.org. Other data acquire functions are: get_dependencies(), get_downloads() and get_description(). The deepdep_shiny() function runs shiny application that helps to produce a nice 'deepdep' plot.

Changes in 0.4.4

fixed failing tests caused by new version of vcr package

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("deepdep", 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("DominikRafacz/deepdep")

Development version from DominikRafacz/deepdep. 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-deepdep

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-deepdep

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-deepdep

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-09
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-02
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-26

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OK13 OK2026-06-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-18
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.4.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 17%2 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Comparison of deepdep to similar packages HTML
deepdep package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,658 · ~10/day · ~309/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47830 days

1.2K90 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dominikrafacz/deepdep ↗Account: DominikRafacz

73Stars

8Forks

20Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

293Commits

10Commit identities

plotrdependenciespackagevisualization

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 293 commits · Last activity 2025-08-24

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-08 · 732026-07-07 · 73

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dominikrafacz/deepdep on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyorCircleCI

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-24

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing deepdep adds 9 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (3)

cranlogs httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

BiocManager covr devtools ggplot2 ggraph graphlayouts igraph knitr miniCRAN plyr rmarkdown scales shiny shinycssloaders spelling stringi testthat vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Dominik Rafacz

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

Laura Bakala

Author · added in 0.3.0

Hubert Baniecki

Author

Szymon Maksymiuk

Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mateusz Bakala

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.2.5.4

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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0.4.0
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2021-12-17 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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0.2.5.4
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0.2.5.3
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2021-06-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-21
0.2.5.2
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2021-05-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-15
check problems were not corrected in time
0.2.2
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2021-04-01 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2020-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
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2020-03-06
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-06
Total releases: 12 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 1.4 MB

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citation("deepdep")

Format

Rafacz, D., Bakala, L., Baniecki, H., Eddelbuettel, D., & Maksymiuk, S. (2025). deepdep: Visualise and Explore the Deep Dependencies of R Packages (Version 0.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.deepdep

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for deepdep version 0.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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