[R] Packages - a great resource, but hard to find the right one.

[John Sorkin]

Gabor,
The URL you cited is helpful, but it is not searchable. It can not be used, for example, to easily determine that MASS can be used for boxcox  tranforms.
John

John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC,
University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper OAIC,
University of Maryland Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and
Baltimore VA Center Stroke of Excellence

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Division of Gerontology
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524

(Phone) 410-605-7119
(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu

>>> Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> 11/21/07 9:31 AM >>>
John, what about

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html 

Isn't this good enough? You might also take a look at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/ 

Gabor

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:24:14AM -0500, John Sorkin wrote:
> Fellow Rers,
> 
> Please forgive me if I have posted this to the wrong R list serve.
> 
> Over the course of the years that I have used R and participated in
> this list server, I have noted a large number of questions and
> answers that direct people to specific packages. The multitude of
> packages is one of the great strengths of R. Unfortunately there is
> no (or at least I am not aware of) any single source that lists all
> available packages and gives a synopsis of what each package
> does. One can install  and load packages one-by-one and look at the
> help pages to see what each package does, but this is at best an
> inefficient and a worst a very frustrating task. Might there be a
> way to put together a searchable database that will allow a user to
> easily search for a given function or technique in all contributed
> packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> John 
> 
> P.S. Many thanks to the writers and maintainers of R packages and
> the many people who contribute to the R list server. 
> 
> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
> Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC,
> University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper OAIC,
> University of Maryland Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and
> Baltimore VA Center Stroke of Excellence
> 
> University of Maryland School of Medicine
> Division of Gerontology
> Baltimore VA Medical Center
> 10 North Greene Street
> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
> 
> (Phone) 410-605-7119
> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
> jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu 
> 
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