[R] Packages - a great resource, but hard to find the right one.

[Gabor Csardi]

John, what about

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html

Isn't this good enough? You might also take a look at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/

Gabor

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:24:14AM -0500, John Sorkin wrote:
> Fellow Rers,
> 
> Please forgive me if I have posted this to the wrong R list serve.
> 
> Over the course of the years that I have used R and participated in
> this list server, I have noted a large number of questions and
> answers that direct people to specific packages. The multitude of
> packages is one of the great strengths of R. Unfortunately there is
> no (or at least I am not aware of) any single source that lists all
> available packages and gives a synopsis of what each package
> does. One can install  and load packages one-by-one and look at the
> help pages to see what each package does, but this is at best an
> inefficient and a worst a very frustrating task. Might there be a
> way to put together a searchable database that will allow a user to
> easily search for a given function or technique in all contributed
> packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> John 
> 
> P.S. Many thanks to the writers and maintainers of R packages and
> the many people who contribute to the R list server. 
> 
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