Al Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a list of all contributed R libraries available through CRAN?
> Ideally it would include a one or two line description.
>
> I am looking for a packages() command similar to library()
> but that would access the CRAN repository and provide a
> listing of the current libraries, and version.
>
> example:
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
Assuming that you have the tools (html2text), a truly awful and ugly
hack is:
CRAN.packages <- function(tempfile=tempfile("cranpack")) {
packages <- readLines("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html";)
write(packages,file=tempfile)
system(paste("html2text",tempfile))
}
I won't claim authorship of such a hack. Don't blame me. There is a
cleaner way.
best,
-tony
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