[R] Contributed packages

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:27 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} wrote:

> Folks:
> If you wanted to find out about what are the contributed packages  
> and classify them, how would you go about it? For someone new like  
> me, I would like to know what the possibilities are. When I click on  
> "install packages" on my Windows version of R, it gives me a list  
> but it is hard to figure out from that list what is the purpose of  
> each package and to what class it belongs (for example, class of  
> regular expressions).
>
> What is the equivalent of CPAN.org for Perl in R where you can  
> browse Perl modules by category? Thanks.

The CRAN Task Views.

> Satish
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