pkg_search: Search CRAN packages

In r-lib/pkgman: Another Approach to Package Installation

Search CRAN packages

Description

Search the indexed database of current CRAN packages. It uses the pkgsearch package. See that package for more details and also pkgsearch::pkg_search() for pagination, more advanced searching, etc.

Usage

pkg_search(query, ...)

Arguments

query	Search query string.
...	Arguments passed on to pkgsearch::pkg_search from Where to start listing the results, for pagination. size The number of results to list.

Value

A data frame, that is also a pak_search_result object with a custom print method. To see the underlying table, you can use ⁠[]⁠ to drop the extra classes. See examples below.

Examples

Simple search

pkg_search("survival")

#>                                                                         
#> 1 survival 3.4.0 -- by Terry M Therneau, 4 months ago                   
#>   Survival Analysis                                                     
#>                                                                         
#> 2 survminer 0.4.9 -- by Alboukadel Kassambara, 2 years ago              
#>   Drawing Survival Curves using 'ggplot2'                               
#>                                                                         
#> 3 flexsurv 2.2 -- by Christopher Jackson, 6 months ago                  
#>   Flexible Parametric Survival and Multi-State Models                   
#>                                                                         
#> 4 muhaz 1.2.6.4 -- by David Winsemius, 2 years ago                      
#>   Hazard Function Estimation in Survival Analysis                       
#>                                                                         
#> 5 pec 2022.5.4 -- by Thomas A. Gerds, 8 months ago                      
#>   Prediction Error Curves for Risk Prediction Models in Survival Analysi
#> s                                                                       
#>                                                                         
#> 6 randomForestSRC 3.1.1 -- by Udaya B. Kogalur, 5 months ago            
#>   Fast Unified Random Forests for Survival, Regression, and Classificati
#> on (RF-SRC)                                                             
#>                                                                         
#> 7 relsurv 2.2.8 -- by Damjan Manevski, 4 months ago                     
#>   Relative Survival                                                     
#>                                                                         
#> 8 survRM2 1.0.4 -- by Hajime Uno, 6 months ago                          
#>   Comparing Restricted Mean Survival Time                               
#>                                                                         
#> 9 titanic 0.1.0 -- by Paul Hendricks, 7 years ago                       
#>   Titanic Passenger Survival Data Set                                   
#>                                                                         
#> 10 KMsurv 0.1.5 -- by Jun Yan, 10 years ago                             
#>   Data sets from Klein and Moeschberger (1997), Survival Analysis       

See the underlying data frame

psro <- pkg_search("ropensci")
psro[]

#> # A data frame: 10 × 15                                                 
#>    score package    version    title descr…¹ date                maint…²
#>    <dbl> <chr>      <pckg_vrs> <chr> <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>  
#>  1  538. webmockr   0.8.2      Stub… "Stubb… 2022-08-28 19:20:02 Scott …
#>  2  520. RSelenium  1.7.9      R Bi… "Provi… 2022-09-02 07:10:11 Ju Yeo…
#>  3  416. tracerer   2.2.2      Trac… "'BEAS… 2021-05-30 08:40:03 Richèl…
#>  4  376. rfisheries 0.2        'Pro… "A pro… 2016-02-19 08:50:03 Karthi…
#>  5  367. mcbette    1.15       Mode… "'BEAS… 2022-08-27 12:30:02 Richèl…
#>  6  359. taxize     0.9.100    Taxo… "Inter… 2022-04-22 07:30:02 Zachar…
#>  7  350. beastier   2.4.11     Call… "'BEAS… 2022-08-11 13:40:04 Richèl…
#>  8  347. spocc      1.2.0      Inte… "A pro… 2021-01-05 19:50:03 Scott …
#>  9  316. chromer    0.3        Inte… "A pro… 2022-10-27 22:45:36 Karl W…
#> 10  315. visdat     0.5.3      Prel… "Creat… 2019-02-15 14:30:03 Nichol…
#> # … with 8 more variables: maintainer_email <chr>, revdeps <int>,       
#> #   downloads_last_month <int>, license <chr>, url <chr>,               
#> #   bugreports <chr>, package_data <I<list>>, ago <chr>, and            
#> #   abbreviated variable names ¹​description, ²​maintainer_name         

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