In leeper/crandatapkgs: Find Data-Only Packages on CRAN

CRAN Data-only Packages

This package is deprecated and will not be updated in the future. It has been archived on CRAN.

This package provides a simple function that lists data-only packages (or those primarily offering built-in datasets) that are available on CRAN. It does this by subsetting the output of avaialable.packages() to return a data.frame of known data-heavy and data-only packages.

To retrieve a data frame listing of these known packages in R, simply do:

library("crandatapkgs")
options(repos = c("https://cloud.r-project.org"))
a <- available_data()

# data structure returned by `available_data()`
str(a)

# a few packages from the response
a[1:3,]

Contributing Known Packages

New packages can be added by creating a GitHub pull request that edits the packages comma-separated values file and adding a row for a package in the form of:

PackageName,Type,"Data Description"

where Type is either Data (for data-only packages) or Supplement (for packages that provide data supplements to other packages or texts). Data Description should be a double-quoted description of the kind of data found in the package.

Installation

The package is available on CRAN and can be installed directly in R using:

install.packages("crandatapkgs")

The latest development version on GitHub can be installed using ghit:

if(!require("ghit")){
    install.packages("ghit")
}
ghit::install_github("leeper/crandatapkgs")

leeper/crandatapkgs documentation built on May 21, 2019, 12:36 a.m.