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Get information about packages used in a project

Source: R/get_pkgs_info.R
get_pkgs_info.Rd

This function scans the project for R packages used, saves a BibTeX file with package references, and returns a data frame with package names, version, and citation keys.

Usage

get_pkgs_info(
  pkgs = "All",
  out.dir = NULL,
  omit = c("grateful"),
  cite.tidyverse = TRUE,
  dependencies = FALSE,
  bib.file = "grateful-refs",
  include.RStudio = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

pkgs

Character. Either "All" to include all packages used in scripts within the project/folder (the default), or "Session" to include only packages used in the current session. Alternatively, pkgs can also be a character vector of package names to get citations for. To cite R as well as the given packages, include "base" in pkgs (see examples).

out.dir

Directory to save the BibTeX file with references. It is recommended to set out.dir = getwd().

omit

Character vector of package names to be omitted from the citation report. grateful is omitted by default. Use omit = NULL to include all packages.

cite.tidyverse

Logical. If TRUE, all tidyverse packages (dplyr, ggplot2, etc) will be collapsed into a single citation of the 'tidyverse', as recommended by the tidyverse team.

dependencies

Logical. Include the dependencies of your used packages? If TRUE, will include all the packages that your used packages depend on.

bib.file

Desired name for the BibTeX file containing packages references ("grateful-refs" by default).

include.RStudio

Logical. If TRUE, adds a citation for the current version of RStudio.

...

Other parameters passed to renv::dependencies().

Value

A data.frame with package info, and a file containing package references in BibTeX format.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
get_pkgs_info(out.dir = tempdir())
get_pkgs_info(pkgs = c("renv", "remotes"), out.dir = tempdir())
}