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) [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Confidentiality Statement: > This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:19}} ______________________________________________ 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.
