Title: | Find 'CRAN' Package by Topic |
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Description: | Finds 'CRAN' packages by the topic requested. The topic can be given as a character string or as a regular expression and will help users to locate 'CRAN' packages matching their specified requirement. findPackage(<string>) returns a data frame of packages with description containing the input string. |
Authors: | Amarnath Bose [aut, cre]
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Maintainer: | Amarnath Bose <[email protected]> |
License: | GPL-3 |
Version: | 0.2.0 |
Built: | 2025-02-21 04:29:28 UTC |
Source: | https://github.com/cran/findPackage |
Finds CRAN packages by the topic requested. The topic can be given as a character string or as a regular expression, and will help users to locate packages matching their specified requirement.
findPackage( topicString = "", fromDate = "2008-09-01", toDate = Sys.Date(), sortOrder = "A" )
findPackage( topicString = "", fromDate = "2008-09-01", toDate = Sys.Date(), sortOrder = "A" )
topicString |
The topic as a character string or as a regular expression |
fromDate |
Format: YYYY-MM-DD. The search in CRAN will be restricted to packages published on or after this date, default is from the earliest available date, i.e. September 2008 |
toDate |
Format: YYYY-MM-DD. The search in CRAN will be restricted to packages published on or before this date, default is till the current date |
sortOrder |
The matching data is sorted by default (A) with the earlier published packages preceding the later ones. For descending sort, more recent earlier, use "D" |
A data frame with the package name, the date of publication, title of the package and its description
ahp <- findPackage("(Analytic Hierarchy Process)|(AHP)"); AHP_or_DEA <- findPackage( "(Analytic Hierarchy Process)|(AHP)|(Data Envelopment Analysis)|(DEA)"); fa <- findPackage("Factor Analysis")
ahp <- findPackage("(Analytic Hierarchy Process)|(AHP)"); AHP_or_DEA <- findPackage( "(Analytic Hierarchy Process)|(AHP)|(Data Envelopment Analysis)|(DEA)"); fa <- findPackage("Factor Analysis")