Get RStudio Package Dependencies — getRStudioPackageDependencies • rstudioapi

Gets a list of the all the R packages that RStudio depends on in some way.

getRStudioPackageDependencies()

Value

A data frame containing a row per R package.

The data frame of package dependencies contains the following columns:

name: The name of the R package.
version: The required minimum version of the R package.
location: Where RStudio expects the package to be, cran for a CRAN-like repository or embedded for development packages embedded in RStudio itself.
source: Whether the package should be installed from source.

The getRStudioPackageDependencies function was introduced in RStudio 1.3.525.