getDependings           package:reposTools           R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function is used to list which packages are depending on
     other packages within a CRAN style repository.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getDependings(repository, depLevel = c("Depends", "Suggests"), method="auto")

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

repository: The URL of a 'CRAN' style repository

depLevel: Which dependency level to be using

  method: Download method to use.  Same as in 'download.file'.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list with an element for every package in the repository.  If a
     particular package is not depended on by anything, then the value
     of that element will be NULL, otherwise a character vector of
     every package depending on it will be present.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jeff Gentry

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'CRAN.packages'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     z <- getDependings(contrib.url("http://bioconductor.org"))