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rdeps

Identify External Packages Used in a Project

v0.4 · Oct 2, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Screens all '.R', '.Rmd', and '.qmd' files to extract the name of packages used in a project. This package detects packages called with 'library(foo)', 'require(foo)', 'foo::bar()' and 'use("foo", "bar")' and adds these dependencies in the DESCRIPTION file in the sections Depends, Imports, and Suggests.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-macos-arm64 OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

new 0.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4 ← 0.3 diff Oct 1, 2025
updated 0.3 ← 0.2 diff Apr 22, 2025
new 0.2 Feb 1, 2024