This function builds and retrieves the full dependency tree for a given R package.
Usage
fetch_all_dependencies(package_name, get_license = FALSE, max_level = 3)
Arguments
- package_name
A character string specifying the name of the package.
- get_license
A logical value indicating whether to extract and include license information from DESCRIPTION files (default: `FALSE`).
- max_level
An integer specifying the maximum depth level for dependency recursion (default: 3).
Set to a higher value to explore deeper dependency layers.
Value
A nested list representing the dependency tree of the package. If `get_license` is `TRUE`,
each package in the tree (including the root package and all dependencies) will have a
`license` field containing that package's license extracted from its DESCRIPTION file.
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
fetch_all_dependencies("ggplot2")
fetch_all_dependencies("ggplot2", get_license = TRUE)
fetch_all_dependencies("ggplot2", max_level = 5) # Deeper dependency exploration
} # }
