Folks: If you wanted to find out about what are the contributed packages and classify them, how would you go about it? For someone new like me, I would like to know what the possibilities are. When I click on "install packages" on my Windows version of R, it gives me a list but it is hard to figure out from that list what is the purpose of each package and to what class it belongs (for example, class of regular expressions). What is the equivalent of CPAN.org for Perl in R where you can browse Perl modules by category? Thanks. Satish
On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:27 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} wrote:
> Folks:
> If you wanted to find out about what are the contributed packages
> and classify them, how would you go about it? For someone new like
> me, I would like to know what the possibilities are. When I click on
> "install packages" on my Windows version of R, it gives me a list
> but it is hard to figure out from that list what is the purpose of
> each package and to what class it belongs (for example, class of
> regular expressions).
>
> What is the equivalent of CPAN.org for Perl in R where you can
> browse Perl modules by category? Thanks.
The CRAN Task Views.
> Satish
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Satish Vadlamani wrote:> > Folks: > If you wanted to find out about what are the contributed packages and > classify them, how would you go about it? For someone new like me, I would > like to know what the possibilities are. When I click on "install > packages" on my Windows version of R, it gives me a list but it is hard to > figure out from that list what is the purpose of each package and to what > class it belongs (for example, class of regular expressions). > > What is the equivalent of CPAN.org for Perl in R where you can browse Perl > modules by category? Thanks. > Satish > >CRAN is the R equivalent of a repository like CPAN.org: http://cran.r-project.org And the task views section groups available packages by category: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ Hope this helps! -Charlie -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Contributed-packages-tp1472555p1473520.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.