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

[Christos Hatzis]

Another useful search facility is
http://www.rseek.org

The nice thing is that it categorizes results by help-list items, R function
etc.
It might be closer to what you are looking for.

-Christos

Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:01 AM
> To: John Sorkin
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Packages - a great resource, but hard to 
> find the right one.
> 
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, John Sorkin wrote:
> 
> > Gabor,
> 
> > The URL you cited is helpful, but it is not searchable. It 
> can not be 
> > used, for example, to easily determine that MASS can be used for 
> > boxcox tranforms.
> 
> It is searchable (use your browser's search facilities), and 
> that is often helpful.  But you can do your search at 
> search.r-project.org (thanks to Jonathan Baron): select 
> 'Complete list of all packages', select a package and browse its help.
> 
> If you are looking for a way to do Box-Cox, or the function 
> boxcox(), search on that site, or for packages you already 
> have installed, use help.search().  One reason we find it 
> useful to have a system with all packages installed (that do 
> install) is to make it easy for our users to search for what 
> they want, and then use it.
> 
> See also http://www.r-project.org/search.html
> 
> > John
> >
> > John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> 
> 
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