search.cran: Search all CRAN packages for those containing keyword(s).
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search.cran

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Search all CRAN packages for those containing keyword(s).

Description

Can be useful for trying to find new packages for a particular purpose. No need for these packages to be installed or loaded. Further searching can be done using utils::RSiteSearch()

Usage

search.cran(txt, repos = "", all.repos = FALSE)

Arguments

`txt`	text to search for, a character vector, not case-sensitive
`repos`	repository(s) (CRAN mirror) to use, "" defaults to getOption("repos")
`all.repos`	logical, if TRUE, then use all available repositories from getRepositories()

Value

list of hits for each keyword (txt)

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper njcooper@gmx.co.uk

Examples

## not run # repos <- "http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/" # OR: repos <- getOption("repos")
## not run # search.cran("draw")
## not run # search.cran(c("hmm", "markov", "hidden"))

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