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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.

Usage

pkg_search(query, ...)

Arguments

query

Search query string.

...

Arguments passed on to pkgsearch::pkg_search

from

Where to start listing the results, for pagination.

size

The 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 ¹​description, ²​maintainer_name