Updating all reverse dependencies of an R package at once

update-reverse-dependencies.md

I recently received the following error when rendering the vignettes for an R package I'm developing as part of R CMD CHECK.

The function xfun::isFALSE() will be deprecated in the future. Please consider using base::isFALSE(x) or identical(x, FALSE) instead.

As it wasn't clear which package exactly was calling the offending function (xfun::isFALSE), I just wanted an easy way of upgrading all packages that may be using it. The following snippet does just that.

updating_revdeps_of_R_package.R

library(tidyverse)

the_pkg_name <- "xfun"

# Find all packages depending on the package
all_revdeps <- devtools::revdep(the_pkg_name)
packages_to_update <- installed.packages() %>%
  as.data.frame() %>% 
  rownames_to_column("pkg_name") %>% 
  filter(pkg_name %in% all_revdeps) %>% 
  pull(pkg_name)

install.packages(packages_to_update)