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

[Ken Knoblauch]

> >>> Gabor Csardi <csardi <at> rmki.kfki.hu> 11/21/07 9:31 AM >>>
> 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/ 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:24:14AM -0500, John Sorkin wrote:
> > 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?

> > John 

Then what about

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/doc/html/packages.html

which allows you to go in a little deeper and see the help pages of each function

and 

http://cged.genes.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/index.php

HTH

ken

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