diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4527f72f..66601712 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: riskassessment
 Title: A web app designed to interface with the `riskmetric` package
-Version: 3.1.0.9001
+Version: 3.1.1
 Authors@R: c( 
     person("Aaron", "Clark", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "clark.aaronchris@gmail.com"),
     person("Jeff", "Thompson", role = c("aut"),  email = "jeff.thompson51317@gmail.com", comment = "Co-Lead"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5a9e345a..c24df3cf 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# riskassessment (development version)
+# riskassessment 3.1.1
 
 * Added navigation controls in Function Explorer tab (#644)
+* Fixed bug that crashed the Package Dependencies page for pkgs without any dependency info available (#802)
 
 # riskassessment 3.1.0
 
diff --git a/R/mod_packageDependencies.R b/R/mod_packageDependencies.R
index 78f6ed05..4145769a 100644
--- a/R/mod_packageDependencies.R
+++ b/R/mod_packageDependencies.R
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ packageDependenciesServer <- function(id, selected_pkg, user, credentials, paren
       req(pkgref())
       tryCatch(
         expr = {
-          deep_ends <- pkgref()$dependencies[[1]] %>% dplyr::as_tibble() %>% 
+          deep_ends <- {if(suppressWarnings(is.null(nrow(pkgref()$dependencies[[1]])) || nrow(pkgref()$dependencies[[1]]) == 0)) dplyr::tibble(package = character(0), type = character(0)) else pkgref()$dependencies[[1]] %>% dplyr::as_tibble()} %>% 
             mutate(package = stringr::str_replace(package, "\n", " ")) %>%
             mutate(name = stringr::str_extract(package, "^((([[A-z]]|[.][._[A-z]])[._[A-z0-9]]*)|[.])"))
           
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ packageDependenciesServer <- function(id, selected_pkg, user, credentials, paren
       )
       tryCatch(
         expr = {
-          shrug_jests <- pkgref()$suggests[[1]] %>% dplyr::as_tibble()%>% 
+          shrug_jests <- 
+            {if(suppressWarnings(is.null(nrow(pkgref()$suggests[[1]])) || nrow(pkgref()$suggests[[1]]) == 0)) dplyr::tibble(package = character(0), type = character(0)) else pkgref()$suggests[[1]] %>% dplyr::as_tibble()} %>% 
             mutate(package = stringr::str_replace(package, "\n", " ")) %>%
             mutate(name = stringr::str_extract(package, "^((([[A-z]]|[.][._[A-z]])[._[A-z0-9]]*)|[.])"))
           
@@ -122,8 +123,7 @@ packageDependenciesServer <- function(id, selected_pkg, user, credentials, paren
                                  decision_id = character(0)))
         }
       )
-      # this is so the dependencies is also a 0x2 tibble like suggests
-      if (rlang::is_empty(pkgref()$dependencies[[1]])) depends(dplyr::tibble(package = character(0), type = character(0), name = character(0)))
+
         
       revdeps(pkgref()$reverse_dependencies[[1]] %>% as.vector())
       
diff --git a/R/utils_build_cards.R b/R/utils_build_cards.R
index 48ff9ae8..f10d56f5 100644
--- a/R/utils_build_cards.R
+++ b/R/utils_build_cards.R
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ build_dep_cards <- function(data, loaded, toggled){
     is_url = numeric(),
     type = character()
   )
-
   
   deps <- data %>% 
     mutate(base = if_else(name %in% c(rownames(installed.packages(priority = "base"))), "Base", "Non-Base")) %>% 
diff --git a/R/utils_get_db.R b/R/utils_get_db.R
index 04f957d7..3836be4e 100644
--- a/R/utils_get_db.R
+++ b/R/utils_get_db.R
@@ -239,6 +239,42 @@ get_metric_data <- function(pkg_name, metric_class = 'maintenance', db_name = go
     )
 }
 
+#' Get Dependency Pkg Versions and Scores
+#'
+#' 
+#' @param pkg_name character name of the package
+#' @param verify_data a data.frame used to verify whether a pkg exists in the db
+#' @param cran_pkgs a data.frame containing all available cran package names/versions
+#'
+#' @returns a list
+#' @noRd
+get_versnScore <- function(pkg_name, verify_data, cran_pkgs) {
+  
+  if (rlang::is_empty(pkg_name)) 
+    return(list(name = character(), version = character(), score = character(),
+                decision_id = character(), decision = character()))
+  
+  if (pkg_name %in% verify_data$name) { #loaded2_db()$name
+    tmp_df <- verify_data %>% filter(name == pkg_name) %>% select(score, version, decision_id, decision)
+    pkg_score <- tmp_df %>% pull(score) %>% as.character
+    pkg_versn <- tmp_df %>% pull(version) %>% as.character
+    pkg_decision_id <- tmp_df %>% pull(decision_id) %>% as.character
+    pkg_decision <- tmp_df %>% pull(decision) %>% as.character
+  } else {
+    pkg_score <- ""
+    pkg_versn <- if_else(pkg_name %in% c(rownames(installed.packages(priority="base"))), "",
+                         subset(cran_pkgs, Package == pkg_name, c("Version")) %>% as.character())
+    pkg_decision_id <- ""
+    pkg_decision <- ""
+  } 
+  
+  return(list(name = pkg_name, version = pkg_versn, score = pkg_score,
+              decision_id = pkg_decision_id, decision = pkg_decision
+  ))   
+}
+
+
+
 #' The 'Get Dependencies Metrics Data' function
 #' 
 #' Pull the depenencies data for a specific package id, and create 
@@ -277,7 +313,7 @@ get_depends_data <- function(pkg_name,
     deps_decision_data <- purrr::map_df(deep_ends$name, ~get_versnScore(.x, loaded2_db, repo_pkgs))
     if(nrow(deps_decision_data) == 0) {
       deps_w_decision <- dplyr::tibble(name = character(0), version = character(0),
-                                       score = character(0), decision = character(0), decision_id = character(0))
+             score = character(0), decision = character(0), decision_id = character(0))
     } else {
       deps_w_decision <- deps_decision_data
     }
@@ -407,40 +443,6 @@ get_assess_blob <- function(pkg_lst, db_name = golem::get_golem_options('assessm
 }
 
 
-#' Get Dependency Pkg Versions and Scores
-#'
-#' 
-#' @param pkg_name character name of the package
-#' @param verify_data a data.frame used to verify whether a pkg exists in the db
-#' @param cran_pkgs a data.frame containing all available cran package names/versions
-#'
-#' @returns a list
-#' @noRd
-get_versnScore <- function(pkg_name, verify_data, cran_pkgs) {
-  
-  if (rlang::is_empty(pkg_name)) 
-    return(list(name = character(), version = character(), score = character(),
-                decision_id = character(), decision = character()))
-  
-  if (pkg_name %in% verify_data$name) { #loaded2_db()$name
-    tmp_df <- verify_data %>% filter(name == pkg_name) %>% select(score, version, decision_id, decision)
-    pkg_score <- tmp_df %>% pull(score) %>% as.character
-    pkg_versn <- tmp_df %>% pull(version) %>% as.character
-    pkg_decision_id <- tmp_df %>% pull(decision_id) %>% as.character
-    pkg_decision <- tmp_df %>% pull(decision) %>% as.character
-  } else {
-    pkg_score <- ""
-    pkg_versn <- if_else(pkg_name %in% c(rownames(installed.packages(priority="base"))), "",
-                 subset(cran_pkgs, Package == pkg_name, c("Version")) %>% as.character())
-    pkg_decision_id <- ""
-    pkg_decision <- ""
-  } 
-  
-  return(list(name = pkg_name, version = pkg_versn, score = pkg_score,
-              decision_id = pkg_decision_id, decision = pkg_decision
-              ))   
-}
-
 
 
 ##### End of get_* functions #####
diff --git a/manifest.json b/manifest.json
index 149014a8..ceee46fc 100644
--- a/manifest.json
+++ b/manifest.json
@@ -4367,7 +4367,7 @@
         "Maintainer": "Kevin Ushey <kevin@rstudio.com>",
         "Repository": "RSPM",
         "Date/Publication": "2024-02-29 01:10:07 UTC",
-        "Built": "R 4.3.3; ; 2024-07-08 12:36:44 UTC; unix"
+        "Built": "R 4.3.3; ; 2024-07-09 14:01:48 UTC; unix"
       }
     },
     "reprex": {
@@ -6220,7 +6220,7 @@
       "checksum": "99c5575cb81828e20a7fe1d205551316"
     },
     "DESCRIPTION": {
-      "checksum": "ea81f750b1ae3fa6b3ebf79e5668a3ee"
+      "checksum": "43f16dae5ba2122f4fd55e23f7229a40"
     },
     "inst/app/www/css/community_metrics.css": {
       "checksum": "f08eb25c2ee48ac22ed63b0d18994a04"
@@ -6463,7 +6463,7 @@
       "checksum": "97d1232340e04c53088bc8f814133dcd"
     },
     "NEWS.md": {
-      "checksum": "29db451dbb57771e940e1911eac5407f"
+      "checksum": "72bdae63c42eb2750d86e97fc0996a79"
     },
     "R/app_config.R": {
       "checksum": "c2b61f270b86b6833f0ee39c44a1a440"
@@ -6532,7 +6532,7 @@
       "checksum": "a894eb9114e258feb99b76cdca557cd2"
     },
     "R/mod_packageDependencies.R": {
-      "checksum": "6fffb51829775826e242824f268062b6"
+      "checksum": "f8cee3c4845b4d3c3c2f66796af28359"
     },
     "R/mod_pkg_explorer_utils.R": {
       "checksum": "b7792e08cc4a67296c9df0f452c0a72a"
@@ -6565,13 +6565,13 @@
       "checksum": "e5835b81f48d93ee0175507abbb3186f"
     },
     "R/utils_build_cards.R": {
-      "checksum": "f79316fe637bb1f4038f085621d298f5"
+      "checksum": "a7cfdc1f9a4ad1c2835cd22eb279d8dc"
     },
     "R/utils_config_db.R": {
       "checksum": "74cf2ee5e7283483a88f08d60e3728b0"
     },
     "R/utils_get_db.R": {
-      "checksum": "6e87d4d43f93b4a4b556d72b848dc3f1"
+      "checksum": "6c0e6fb4b3716cdd0c0d2953a1cf4393"
     },
     "R/utils_insert_db.R": {
       "checksum": "2c02e4eab4d9262ef8c8e64eb0f1b4f5"