You can define the special dependency of the revdep-checked package in the `Remotes` field. More info: https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/remotes/vignettes/dependencies.html
E.g. if you are revdep-checking package PKG, then you can add something like this in the DESCRIPTION file of PKG: Remotes: local::/path/to/your/package or if the package is on GitHub: Remotes: user/repo Then revdepcheck will automatically install the special version of the dependency, for the dev version of the revdep-checked package. (But not for the CRAN version of the package.) Best, Gabor On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:17 PM Georgi Boshnakov <georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using package 'revdepcheck' to check reverse dependencies of a package > and it works great. But now I have a scenario such that I wish it to use a > local version of one of the dependencies of the checked package and am not > able to find out how. > > Some context: Package A imports package B. Package A has many reverse > dependencies. I wish to check if an update to package B will break some of > the reverse dependencies of A and/or repair broken reverse dependencies of A. > It is obvious to update B on CRAN but this may lead unnecessarily to a number > of CRAN updates. > > > Georgi Boshnakov > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
