R Observatory: Metrics for pkgndep version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgndep

2.0.0

Analyze Dependency Heaviness of R Packages

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zuguang GuFirst published 2020-05-2115 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A new metric named 'dependency heaviness' is proposed that measures the number of additional dependency packages that a parent package brings to its child package and are unique to the dependency packages imported by all other parents. The dependency heaviness analysis is visualized by a customized heatmap. The package is described in doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac449. We have also performed the dependency heaviness analysis on the CRAN/Bioconductor package ecosystem, described in doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111610.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("pkgndep", 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("jokergoo/pkgndep")

Development version from jokergoo/pkgndep. 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-pkgndep

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 14.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

WARNING2026-05-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
8 OK · 6 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 44%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,968 · ~14/day · ~436/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20630 days

1.3K90 days

5.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on127 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ jokergoo/pkgndep

46Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

117Commits

4Contributors

117 commits · Last activity 2025-03-17 · +2.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-09 · 452026-07-29 · 46

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jokergoo/pkgndep on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

ComplexHeatmap GetoptLong GlobalOptionsutilsgridhashmethodsbrew

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown svglite base64 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Zuguang Gu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Zuguang Gu

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.0Latest
2026-04-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.99.3
2023-10-13 · diff ↗
1.99.2
2023-08-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.1
2022-11-15 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2022-08-31 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2022-08-09 · diff ↗
1.1.4
2022-06-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.3
2022-03-28 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2022-03-22 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2022-02-15 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2021-11-10 · diff ↗

Show 6 earlier events

R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.3
2021-03-05 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2021-01-08 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2020-11-12 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2020-05-21
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-21
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgndep")

Format

Gu, Z. (2026). pkgndep: Analyze Dependency Heaviness of R Packages (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgndep

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgndep version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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