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hardening of dependency inference for library calls

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Description

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/packrat-discuss/1aLsQOTZ_4U

It looks like packrat needs to improve its exclusion for library calls of the form:

library(x, character.only = TRUE)

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Research direction

Start with the linked packrat-discuss thread and the dependency-inference handling for library calls. Reproduce the library(x, character.only = TRUE) case and trace how its dependency is inferred; done means this form is correctly excluded from the inferred dependencies.

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Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Stale
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Newbie friendliness
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