Searches for packages on CRAN by scanning a specified set of information fields for a user-provided search term.
exploreFields(
term,
fields = c("Name", "Description", "LongDescription"),
mode = "or",
match = "like",
display = "viewer",
index = NULL
)No return value.
Search term to look for; character vector must have one element.
The list of fields to be scanned for the search term; must be a character vector with one or more field names. Allowed field names are: "Name", "Description", "LongDescription", "Maintainer", "Authors@R", "Author", "License", "Imports", "Enhances", "Depends", "Suggests", "Reverse depends", "Reverse suggests", "Reverse enhances", "Copyright", "Contact", "Note", "MailingList".
Indicates whether matches in the field shall be combined with a logical OR or with a logical AND; accordingly, permitted values are "or" (default) and "and". In "or" mode, every package that has the search term in any of the fields from fields generates a hit, in "and" mode the search term must be found in all fields provided to make that package a search hit.
Either "like" (default) or "exact". Determines if the field content must match the search term exactly or only needs to contain it.
Describes where the search results shall be shown. Either "viewer" or "console". If "viewer", the results are shown in RStudio's Viewer pane if the RStudio IDE is being used). If results = "console" the search results are shown as a text table in the R console.
Either a path (or URL) to a search index, or a search index that is already loaded. If no index is provided, exploreFields() creates an ad hoc search index.
Joachim Zuckarelli joachim@zuckarelli.de
Found packages are listed in alphabetical order, there is no prioritization of search hits as in findPackage().
exploreFields("Hadley", c("Maintainer", "Authors@R", "Author"))
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