duttashi
/ remove_pkg_dep.R
Created
August 21, 2017 23:45
To uninstall a R package and all its dependencies
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| # The below code is adoped from the answer by user `Thomas` posted on StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26573368/uninstall-remove-r-package-with-dependencies | |
| library("tools") | |
| removeDepends <- function(pkg, recursive = FALSE){ | |
| d <- package_dependencies(,installed.packages(), recursive = recursive) | |
| depends <- if(!is.null(d[[pkg]])) d[[pkg]] else character() | |
| needed <- unique(unlist(d[!names(d) %in% c(pkg,depends)])) | |
| toRemove <- depends[!depends %in% needed] | |
| if(length(toRemove)){ | |
| toRemove <- select.list(c(pkg,sort(toRemove)), multiple = TRUE, |