R: Dependencies of R Packages

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## Dependencies of R Packages

### Description

This one-way table gives the type-token distribution of the number of dependencies declared in 4983 packages listed on CRAN on January 17, 2014.

### Usage

    data(Depends)

### Format

The format is: 'table' int [1:15(1d)] 986 1347 993 685 375 298 155 65 32 19 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 1 ..$ Depends: chr [1:15] "0" "1" "2" "3" ...

### Source

Using code from http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/12/a-look-at-the-distribution-of-r-package-dependencies.html

### Examples

    data(Depends)
    plot(Depends, xlab="Number of Dependencies", ylab="Number of R Packages", lwd=8)

    ## Not run:
    # The code below, from Joseph Rickert, downloads and tabulates the data
    p <- as.data.frame(available.packages(),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
    names(p)

    pkgs <- data.frame(p[,c(1,4)])                  # Pick out Package names and Depends
    row.names(pkgs) <- NULL                         # Get rid of row names
    pkgs <- pkgs[complete.cases(pkgs[,2]),]         # Remove NAs

    pkgs$Depends2 <-strsplit(pkgs$Depends,",")      # split list of Depends
    pkgs$numDepends <- as.numeric(lapply(pkgs$Depends2,length)) # Count number of dependencies in list
    zeros <- c(rep(0,dim(p)[1] - dim(pkgs)[1]))     # Account for packages with no dependencies
    Deps <- as.vector(c(zeros,pkgs$numDepends))     # Set up to tablate
    Depends <- table(Deps)

    ## End(Not run)

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