The number of help requests that could be answered by either: 1) A full text search of package INDEX files
or 2) A full text search of package documentation files is certainly large. Professor Baron's search engine does this very well. Some time ago, I wrote a Tck-Tk program to perform this sort of search, so that I could enter any word and get a list of all files in the R documentation that contained that word. In general, it is about as comprehensive as the UPenn search engine. However, neither of these are on the CRAN site. It does not seem difficult to program such a search on CRAN, so that someone seeking a package dealing with, say, "goodness of fit" could enter it and have an HTML page served with a list of links to documentation files that contain that phrase. A lot easier than working one's way through the 350+ packages listed or attempting to divine what each package contains from their often whimsical names. Yes, I would be happy to have a try. Jim ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
