Detect R packages used by a project — detect_project_packages • sysreqr

Inspects a project directory for the R packages it uses. The detection priority is:

Usage

detect_project_packages(path = ".", include_suggests = FALSE)

Arguments

path: Project path.
include_suggests: Whether to include Suggests from DESCRIPTION.

Value

A character vector of package names.

Details

renv.lock (the Packages map),
DESCRIPTION (Depends, Imports, LinkingTo, and optionally Suggests),
.R, .Rmd, .qmd, and NAMESPACE files (looking for library(), require(), requireNamespace(), and pkg::fun references; line comments are ignored).

See also

Other preflight: check_library(), check_packages(), check_project()

Examples

project <- file.path(tempdir(), "demo-project")
dir.create(project, showWarnings = FALSE)
writeLines(
  c("Package: demo", "Imports: xml2, curl"),
  file.path(project, "DESCRIPTION")
)
detect_project_packages(project)
#> [1] "curl" "xml2"