[R] R newbie: how to replace string/regular expression

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Krishna Dagli <krishna.dagli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have one doubt though, how does one locate packages that's
> available for specific task (like this one). Does one look at package
> index (http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/web/packages/index.html).
> or is there any other trick?
>
> I tried "help.search("string")" and also looked at help.start()
> but I think it just displays whats available on my machine.
>

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