[R] reverse dep of a package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 28.04.2015 19:04, carol white via R-help wrote:
> yes, reverse dependency. All the reverse dependancies on the main web page of the packages are generated by CRAN?

Yes, and updated once a new package depends on the one in question.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


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>       On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   On 28/04/2015 8:54 AM, carol white via R-help wrote:
>> Hi,How to cite reverse dependancies in the NAMESPACE file in building a package?
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> That doesn't make sense.  How could you predict which packages will
> depend on yours?
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> Perhaps you mean something different by "reverse dependency".  The
> standard definition is that if B depends on A, then A is a dependency of
> B, and B is a reverse dependency of A.
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