A tool, grammar, and standard to represent and exchange
    R package source code as text files. Converts one or more source
    packages to a text file and restores the package structures from the file.

Simulates the process of installing a package and then
    attaching it. This is a key part of the 'devtools' package as it
    allows you to rapidly iterate while developing a package.

A new metric named 'dependency heaviness' is proposed that measures the number 
    of additional dependency packages that a parent package brings to its child package 
    and are unique to the dependency packages imported by all other parents.  
    The dependency heaviness analysis is visualized by a customized heatmap. 
    The package is described in <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac449>. 
    We have also performed the dependency heaviness analysis on the CRAN/Bioconductor 
    package ecosystem and the results are implemented as a web-based database 
    which provides comprehensive tools for querying dependencies of individual R packages. 
    The systematic analysis on the CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystem is described in 
    <doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111610>. From 'pkgndep' version 2.0.0, the heaviness 
    database includes snapshots of the CRAN/Bioconductor ecosystems for many old R versions.

Tools from the domain of graph theory can be used to quantify the complexity
             and vulnerability to failure of a software package. That is the guiding philosophy
             of this package. 'pkgnet' provides tools to analyze the dependencies between functions
             in an R package and between its imported packages.  See the pkgnet website for vignettes 
             and other supplementary information.

Read R package news files, regardless of whether or not the package
  is installed.

Search CRAN metadata about packages by keyword, popularity,
    recent activity, package name and more. Uses the 'R-hub' search
    server, see <https://r-pkg.org> and the CRAN metadata database, that
    contains information about CRAN packages. Note that this is _not_ a
    CRAN project.