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deepdep

https://dominikrafacz.github.io/deepdep/

Great idea, but seems to be broken atm. Also doesn't seem to be able to find reverse depdencies.

Has a helpful pros/cons comparison with other similar packages:
https://dominikrafacz.github.io/deepdep/articles/deepdep-comparison.html

miniCRAN

Useful function for getting CRAN description files:

res <- miniCRAN::getCranDescription(pkgs = "miniCRAN")

Can then convert to desc format :

 dl <- as.list(res)
  d <- desc::description$new("!new")
  for(k in names(dl)){
    if(!is.na(dl[[k]])){ 
      d$set_list(key = k, list_value = dl[[k]])   
    }
  }

However, it only has access to CRAN.

Moreover, it seems like it can only access INSTALLED CRAN packages....so not very useful.

BiocPkgTools

Package dependency graphs and download stats of Bioc packages. Recently updated
https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/BiocPkgTools/inst/doc/BiocPkgTools.html

ALso has access to DESCRIPTION files:
bpi = biocPkgList()

Also has access to anacondaDownloadStats, another repo I should consider incorporating into echodeps for download stats.

Comes with tons of pre-parsed GitHub metadata for each package.

awesome-r-pkgtools

Repo documenting lots of awesome R dev tools, including dep management:
https://github.com/IndrajeetPatil/awesome-r-pkgtools#dependency-management-%EF%B8%8F

pkgdepends

https://r-lib.github.io/pkgdepends/

Not very useful for my case, since you have to download each R package and install it....

[bschilder]

Closing this research notes issue. deepdep and miniCRAN were explored as alternatives but echodeps fills a specific niche for echoverse dependency visualization using pkgnet/tidygraph/visNetwork. The package is functional and passing CI.