On 6/5/05, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > Of course, with disk sizes as they are now, it's not unreasonable to > > install all of the contributed CRAN packages on a PC. Then > > help.search() *will* do searches through them all. > > Some of them are very specialized, and some of them have non-CRAN > dependencies. I've done a few "load everything from CRAN" operations on > my Linux boxes, only to overflow the warnings list with missing Linux > software. And, as an example, I have zero use for molecular biology > packages. > > Dirk Eddelbuettel has done a lot of work integrating the CRAN and other > R package collections with the Debian GNU/Linux package management > system. This rather neatly solves the non-CRAN dependency problems, at > least for Debian. > > Other people have done similar things for Perl packages and Common Lisp > packages, both in Debian and in Gentoo's Portage package management > system. CRAN could easily be integrated into Portage, but nobody has > stepped forward to volunteer. Maybe when I retire ... :) > > And where does this leave Windows users? There's nothing like Debian or > Portage for them; CRAN would have to build it from scratch.
I think that some time ago there was a discussion of having a downloadable file that oould be used to help.search through so that a relatively small download and no package installation would allow a comprehensive offline help.search of all CRAN packages. An online version of help.search might be another possibility. ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
