Dependency analysis on package vegan

General information

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Package version2.6-2
Number of strong dependencies14
Number of all dependencies28
Number of parent packages5
Max heaviness from parent packages4
Total heaviness from parent packages7
Number of parent packages (including Suggests and Enhances)9
Max co-heaviness from parent packages ("mgcv" and "lattice")2

Dependency heatmap

In the following dependency heatmap, rows are the parent packages of vegan and columns are the dependency packages that each parent package brings in. On the right side of the heatmap, there are three barplot annotations: 1. number of imported functions/S4 methods/S4 classes from parent packages; 2. number of dependency packages from each parent package; 3. heaviness of each parent package on vegan.

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Base packages Other packages Depends Imports Suggests stats utils grDevices graphics methods grid splines tools nlme Matrix lattice xfun mime evaluate highr stringr yaml glue magrittr stringi 0 2 4 6 8 Imported methods 0 5 10 Required packages 0 5 10 Heaviness from parents permute lattice cluster MASS mgcv parallel tcltk markdown knitr In total 14 packages are required directly or indirectly (28) when installing 'vegan' (2.6-2) Depends Imports Suggests Base packages that are required Recommended packages that are required Contributed packages that are required Packages that are required for installing 'vegan' Imported functions The whole namespace is imported


Dependency table

"Import" information is from the NAMESPACE file of vegan.

imports: number of imported functions/objects; importMethods: number of imported S4 methods; importClasses: number of imported S4 classes.

Required packages: number of strong dependency packages for each of the parent package (or in other words, number of dependency packages the parent package brings in).

Heaviness from parent on vegan: number of required packages that can be reduced if moving parent package to Suggests of vegan.

Parent package Field imports importMethods importClasses Required packages Heaviness from parent on vegan
permute Depends The whole set of functions/methods/classes from parent package is imported to the namespace of vegan. 1 1
lattice Depends The whole set of functions/methods/classes from parent package is imported to the namespace of vegan. 5 0
mgcv Imports 5 0 0 10 4
cluster Imports 2 0 0 4 1
MASS Imports 5 0 0 5 1
knitr Suggests No object is imported into the namespace of vegan. 12 10
markdown Suggests No object is imported into the namespace of vegan. 5 4
parallel Suggests 9 0 0 0 1
tcltk Suggests No object is imported into the namespace of vegan. 0 1

Analysis was done with pkgndep.