Oleg Smirnov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Â Suggestions & patches are welcome. > > > > Nice! I'll look at integrating it into bauerbill as an optdep when I get > > some > > time. It should just need a way to construct a "database" so that it can > > search > > for packages. If you want to help me with that, take a look at how it > > handles > > Hackage and CPAN. > > Do you mean a local database or remote one? Because the list of > available packages can be fetched from > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES
That's perfect. I'll write a parser for that to generate a local database for searches etc. It may be a while before I have the time though (or not, as I'm easily sidetracked :P). Regards, Xyne
