In njtierney/cranscan: Scans CRAN to Find Relevant R Packages

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cranscan

The goal of cranscan is to make it easy to search for relevant R packages to your interests, using an interface based on papr.

The first step in this is retrieving the data from CRAN, and then appending a download count to it.

library(cranscan)

scan_cran_tbl <- scan_cran("miss | imp*")

scan_cran_tbl

Future work

• adding download counts: Currently only 950 calls via cranlogs::cran_downloads() are made possible in a single call, need to work out how to get up to 10K.

• shiny app: there will of course be a shiny app that allows for swiping through relevant R packages and then having some clever way of handling what you liked and didn't like.

• some sort of machine-learning-y way to show CRAN packages that you might be interested in, based on previous swipe patterns?

• cranberry juice: another option to just view what has recently been pushed to cranberries.

njtierney/cranscan documentation built on May 24, 2019, 6:11 a.m.