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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, John Sorkin wrote:

> 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.

It is searchable (use your browser's search facilities), and that is often 
helpful.  But you can do your search at search.r-project.org (thanks to 
Jonathan Baron): select 'Complete list of all packages', select a package 
and browse its help.

If you are looking for a way to do Box-Cox, or the function boxcox(), 
search on that site, or for packages you already have installed, use 
help.search().  One reason we find it useful to have a system with all 
packages installed (that do install) is to make it easy for our users to 
search for what they want, and then use it.

See also http://www.r-project.org/search.html

> John
>
> John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.


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