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

[Peter Carbonetto]

That works quite well! Thank you for the suggestion.

Peter

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:45 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar using fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 05:29, Peter Carbonetto
> <peter.carbonetto using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I think that the easiest way is to use Microsoft's CRAN time machine
> [1]. Simply set the session's repo to the day before the archiving
> date, and then you can get the complete list using regular procedures.
>
> [1] https://mran.microsoft.com/timemachine
>
> Iñaki
>

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