In sbgraves237/sos: Search Contributed R Packages, Sort by Package

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sos

The sos package provides the fastest literature search I know for anything statistical. It queries the RSiteSearch database and sorts the results by package not just help page. The package includes a vignette reprinted from The R Journal.

Installation

You can install the released version of sos from CRAN with:

install.packages("sos")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sbgraves237/sos")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(sos)
(PL <- findFn('Petal.Length'))

The print method for an object of class findFn, like PL, opens two tabs in the default browser: The first has links to individual help pages sorted by package. The second is a package summary.

The current version of sos extracts some information only from installed packages. You can install the leading packages in a search as follows:

installPackages(PL)
PL

For more see the companion vignette, which appeared as Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj and Romain François, "sos: Searching Help Pages of R Packages", The R Journal, 1(2)56-59.

sbgraves237/sos documentation built on July 2, 2024, 4:34 p.m.