FWIW I've been reasonably happy with the revdepcheck package: it's not
base-R, but it's pretty robust (lme4 'only' has 286 dependencies to
check ...) I've had much better luck running it on a remote server
(where the sysadmin is responsive so it's not too much trouble to get
extra system depen
Background: I run tools::testInstalledPackage on all packages that dependend on
survival
(605 as of today) before sending a new release to CRAN. It has a few false
positives which
I then follow up on. (Mostly packages with as-yet-incomplete tests in their
inst directory).
Issue: testInstal
