Navigating CRAN's Reverse Dependency Check Logs

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This post is unlikely to be useful for most people, so please feel free to skip it unless you maintain an R package that has a lot of reverse dependencies.

The number of reverse dependencies of the knitr package (and rmarkdown) reached 10,000 a couple of years ago, about which I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s great that so many packages depend on knitr and rmarkdown; on the other hand, it means checking reverse dependencies is becoming more and more …