Dear R Users, Are there any tools to extract the function names called by reverse-dependencies?
I would like to group these functions using clustering methods based on the co-occurrence in the reverse-dependencies. Utility: It may be possible to split complex packages into modules with fewer reverse-dependencies. Package pkgdepR may offer some of the functionality; but I did not have time to fully explore it: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pkgdepR/index.html If such tools are not yet available, I have opened an issue on GitHub and would like to collect any ideas: https://github.com/discoleo/PackageBrowser/issues/1 There are some model packages that could be used to test the clustering: 1) Rcpp, xml: the core-functionality will always be needed; splitting into modules may not be possible/useful; 2) pracma: most reverse-dependencies are likely using only a small subset of the functions in pracma; (there was some discussion on R-package-devel about reverse dependencies a few weeks ago) 3) survival: I have no idea in which category it falls - but it has a lot of reverse-dependencies; Note: I missed some important functionality from the pkgsearch package. I have started therefore work on a new package (PackageBrowser) - although it is not yet published on CRAN: https://github.com/discoleo/PackageBrowser It does not yet process recursively the reverse-dependencies; although this does not seem a big challenge. The real challenge is to parse the code and extract function names. I did some work in the past, but never had time for a full implementation. Many thanks, Leonard [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
