[R-pkg-devel] List of reverse dependencies, including archived packages

[Peter Carbonetto]

I'm wondering if there is a way to get a list of reverse dependencies on
CRAN that includes archived packages.

I am asking because "ashr", an R package I maintain, was recently removed
from CRAN, and now it is back after I fixed the critical problem. However,
some of the downstream packages that were affected by this removal are no
longer listed as a reverse dependency.

For example, the CorShrink package (
https://cran.r-project.org/package=CorShrink) imports ashr, and was
therefore removed when ashr was removed. But as you can see from the ashr
page (https://cran.r-project.org/package=ashr), CorShrink is no longer
listed as a reverse dependency.

I would like to notify all the maintainers of the packages that depend on
ashr---including maintainers of the packages that were removed---so that
they can take appropriate action.

I suspect that I am not the first one to confront this situation, but I
couldn't find anything in the R-pkg-devel archives that was relevant.

Thank you,

Peter Carbonetto
Computational Scientist, Statistics & Genetics,
Research Computing Center & Dept. of Human Genetics
University of Chicago

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