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) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
