debrief: Text-Based Summaries for 'profvis' Profiling Data

Provides text-based summaries and analysis tools for 'profvis' profiling output. Designed for terminal workflows and artificial intelligence (AI) agent consumption, offering views including hotspot analysis, call trees, source context, caller/callee relationships, and memory allocation breakdowns.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1)
Suggests:	knitr, profvis, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-04-21
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.debrief (may not be active yet)
Author:	Emil Hvitfeldt [aut, cre], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Emil Hvitfeldt <emil.hvitfeldt at posit.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-lib/debrief/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/r-lib/debrief, https://r-lib.github.io/debrief/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	debrief results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	debrief.html , debrief.pdf
Vignettes:	Case study: Using debrief for iterative R performance optimization (source, R code)

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Package source:	debrief_0.1.0.tar.gz
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