pkgndep: Analyze Dependency Heaviness of R Packages
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>.
| Version: | 2.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0.0) |
| Imports: | ComplexHeatmap (≥ 2.6.0), GetoptLong, GlobalOptions, utils, grid, hash, methods, brew |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, svglite, base64, testthat |
| Published: | 2026-04-08 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgndep |
| Author: | Zuguang Gu  [aut,
cre] |
| Maintainer: | Zuguang Gu <guzuguang at suat-sz.edu.cn> |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/jokergoo/pkgndep |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | pkgndep citation info |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | pkgndep results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | pkgndep.html , pkgndep.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Co-heaviness of two parent packages (source, R code) Check the heaviness of package dependencies (source, R code) Suggestions for optimizing package dependencies (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | pkgndep_2.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: pkgndep_1.99.3.zip, r-release: pkgndep_1.99.3.zip, r-oldrel: pkgndep_1.99.3.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): pkgndep_1.99.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pkgndep_1.99.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pkgndep_1.99.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pkgndep_1.99.3.tgz |
| Old sources: | pkgndep archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse suggests: | InteractiveComplexHeatmap |
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