depguard: Manifest-Based Dependency Conflict Detection for Sandboxed R Sessions

Provides lightweight, manifest-based checking of R package dependencies (including transitive dependencies) against the currently installed environment, without requiring a full project lockfile. Designed for sandboxed or ephemeral notebook environments (e.g. Kaggle, Colab, Binder) where 'renv'-style lockfile ownership is impractical. Includes session snapshot/diff tools (building on 'sessioninfo') to detect when an install silently changes the version of a package that is already loaded, and optional single-package version rollback.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5)
Imports:	tools, utils, sessioninfo, cli
Suggests:	remotes, pak, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, spelling
Published:	2026-09-24
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.depguard (may not be active yet)
Author:	Samruddhi Amol Shah [aut, cre], Kartik Patel [aut], Amrit Pal [ctb]
Maintainer:	Samruddhi Amol Shah <samruddhi.bitnbyte at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/sunraycodes/depguard/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/sunraycodes/depguard
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	depguard results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	depguard.html , depguard.pdf
Vignettes:	Using depguard in Kaggle, Colab, and other sandboxed notebooks (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	depguard_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): depguard_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): depguard_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): depguard_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): depguard_0.1.0.tgz

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