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

Lightweight, offline-first checking of R package dependencies against the currently installed environment, without requiring a full project lockfile. Verifies a declared manifest of package versions, including version constraints declared by transitive dependencies, reports session-level snapshot differences (including stale versions still loaded in a running session), detects packages shadowed by another library, and offers single-package version rollback. Designed for hosted notebooks (e.g. Kaggle, Colab, Binder) where 'renv'-style lockfile ownership is impractical, and equally usable on a normal desktop.

Version:	0.2.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5)
Imports:	cli, stats, tools, utils
Suggests:	remotes, pak, testthat (≥ 3.2.0), withr, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling
Published:	2026-10-06
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.depguard
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
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	depguard results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	depguard.html , depguard.pdf
Vignettes:	Using depguard in Kaggle, Colab, and on your desktop (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	depguard_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: depguard_0.2.0.zip, r-release: depguard_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: depguard_0.2.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): depguard_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): depguard_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): depguard_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): depguard_0.2.0.tgz
Old sources:	depguard archive

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