Generating a Call Graph in R

Question

I\'ve been given a big chunk of poorly formatted monolithic R code with plenty of functions, and I\'d like to work out what functions call what functions.

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Answer 1

Would profr help you out? From the documentation:

> ?profr
> glm_ex <- profr(example(glm))
Read 17 items
>      head(glm_ex)
             f level time start  end  leaf source
8      example     1 0.32  0.00 0.32 FALSE  utils
9       2 0.04  0.00 0.04 FALSE   
10      source     2 0.28  0.04 0.32 FALSE   base
11  prepare_Rd     3 0.02  0.00 0.02 FALSE   
12      render     3 0.02  0.02 0.04 FALSE   
13 getSrcLines     3 0.02  0.04 0.06 FALSE   base
>      summary(glm_ex)
               f          level             time          start       
 eval.with.vis  :10   Min.   : 1.000   Min.   :0.02   Min.   :0.0000  
     : 3   1st Qu.: 4.000   1st Qu.:0.02   1st Qu.:0.1200  
 lazyLoadDBfetch: 3   Median : 6.000   Median :0.02   Median :0.2000  
 %in%           : 3   Mean   : 7.211   Mean   :0.03   Mean   :0.1769  
 inherits       : 3   3rd Qu.: 9.000   3rd Qu.:0.02   3rd Qu.:0.2600  
 is.factor      : 3   Max.   :22.000   Max.   :0.32   Max.   :0.3000  
 (Other)        :65                                                   
      end            leaf            source         
 Min.   :0.0200   Mode :logical   Length:90         
 1st Qu.:0.1500   FALSE:75        Class :character  
 Median :0.2400   TRUE :15        Mode  :character  
 Mean   :0.2069   NA's :0                           
 3rd Qu.:0.2800                                     
 Max.   :0.3200                                     

> plot(glm_ex)

Not quite what you are after, but you may be able to adapt it to your needs.