Search the indexed database of current CRAN packages. It uses the
pkgsearch package. See that package for more details and also
pkgsearch::pkg_search() for pagination, more advanced searching,
etc.
Arguments
- query
Search query string.
- ...
Arguments passed on to
pkgsearch::pkg_searchfromWhere to start listing the results, for pagination.
sizeThe number of results to list.
Value
A data frame, that is also a pak_search_result object
with a custom print method. To see the underlying table, you
can use [] to drop the extra classes. See examples below.
Examples
Simple search
pkg_search("survival")#> #> 1 survival 3.4.0 -- by Terry M Therneau, 4 months ago #> Survival Analysis #> #> 2 survminer 0.4.9 -- by Alboukadel Kassambara, 2 years ago #> Drawing Survival Curves using 'ggplot2' #> #> 3 flexsurv 2.2 -- by Christopher Jackson, 6 months ago #> Flexible Parametric Survival and Multi-State Models #> #> 4 muhaz 1.2.6.4 -- by David Winsemius, 2 years ago #> Hazard Function Estimation in Survival Analysis #> #> 5 pec 2022.5.4 -- by Thomas A. Gerds, 8 months ago #> Prediction Error Curves for Risk Prediction Models in Survival Analysi #> s #> #> 6 randomForestSRC 3.1.1 -- by Udaya B. Kogalur, 5 months ago #> Fast Unified Random Forests for Survival, Regression, and Classificati #> on (RF-SRC) #> #> 7 relsurv 2.2.8 -- by Damjan Manevski, 4 months ago #> Relative Survival #> #> 8 survRM2 1.0.4 -- by Hajime Uno, 6 months ago #> Comparing Restricted Mean Survival Time #> #> 9 titanic 0.1.0 -- by Paul Hendricks, 7 years ago #> Titanic Passenger Survival Data Set #> #> 10 KMsurv 0.1.5 -- by Jun Yan, 10 years ago #> Data sets from Klein and Moeschberger (1997), Survival Analysis
See the underlying data frame
psro <- pkg_search("ropensci")
psro[]#> # A data frame: 10 × 15 #> score package version title descr…¹ date maint…² #> <dbl> <chr> <pckg_vrs> <chr> <chr> <dttm> <chr> #> 1 538. webmockr 0.8.2 Stub… "Stubb… 2022-08-28 19:20:02 Scott … #> 2 520. RSelenium 1.7.9 R Bi… "Provi… 2022-09-02 07:10:11 Ju Yeo… #> 3 416. tracerer 2.2.2 Trac… "'BEAS… 2021-05-30 08:40:03 Richèl… #> 4 376. rfisheries 0.2 'Pro… "A pro… 2016-02-19 08:50:03 Karthi… #> 5 367. mcbette 1.15 Mode… "'BEAS… 2022-08-27 12:30:02 Richèl… #> 6 359. taxize 0.9.100 Taxo… "Inter… 2022-04-22 07:30:02 Zachar… #> 7 350. beastier 2.4.11 Call… "'BEAS… 2022-08-11 13:40:04 Richèl… #> 8 347. spocc 1.2.0 Inte… "A pro… 2021-01-05 19:50:03 Scott … #> 9 316. chromer 0.3 Inte… "A pro… 2022-10-27 22:45:36 Karl W… #> 10 315. visdat 0.5.3 Prel… "Creat… 2019-02-15 14:30:03 Nichol… #> # … with 8 more variables: maintainer_email <chr>, revdeps <int>, #> # downloads_last_month <int>, license <chr>, url <chr>, #> # bugreports <chr>, package_data <I<list>>, ago <chr>, and #> # abbreviated variable names ¹description, ²maintainer_name