Satish Vadlamani wrote: > > Folks: > If you wanted to find out about what are the contributed packages and > classify them, how would you go about it? For someone new like me, I would > like to know what the possibilities are. When I click on "install > packages" on my Windows version of R, it gives me a list but it is hard to > figure out from that list what is the purpose of each package and to what > class it belongs (for example, class of regular expressions). > > What is the equivalent of CPAN.org for Perl in R where you can browse Perl > modules by category? Thanks. > Satish > >
CRAN is the R equivalent of a repository like CPAN.org: http://cran.r-project.org And the task views section groups available packages by category: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ Hope this helps! -Charlie -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Contributed-packages-tp1472555p1473520.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
