crandep

Network Analysis of Dependencies of CRAN Packages

Last update: 26 February 2024

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier: 0.3.1, 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6

Description

The dependencies of CRAN packages can be analysed in a network fashion. For each package we can obtain the packages that it depends, imports, suggests, etc. By iterating this procedure over a number of packages, we can build, visualise, and analyse the dependency network, enabling us to have a bird's-eye view of the CRAN ecosystem. One aspect of interest is the number of reverse dependencies of the packages, or equivalently the in-degree distribution of the dependency network. This can be fitted by the power law and/or an extreme value mixture distribution <arXiv:2008.03073>, of which functions are provided.

Cites work

From the power law to extreme value mixture distributions

This page was built for software: crandep