Thanks, this page is fine. http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote: > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:24:10 -0700 > From: A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Al Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Comprehesive Package/Library list? > > 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 > > -- > A.J. Rossini > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ > Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington > Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > UW : FAX=206-543-3461 | moving soon to a permanent office > FHCRC: 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachments may be > confidential and privileged. If you received this message in error, > please destroy it and notify the sender. Thank you. > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
