[R] Comprehesive Package/Library list?

[Al Piszcz]

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 <rossini at blindglobe.net>
> To: Al Piszcz <apiszcz at solarrain.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Comprehesive Package/Library list?
>
> Al Piszcz <apiszcz at solarrain.com> 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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