p_search_any {pacman} | R Documentation |
Uses agrep
to find packages by
maintainer (often this is the author as well) or by name.
p_search_any(term, search.by = "Maintainer")
p_sa(term, search.by = "Maintainer")
term |
A search term (character string). |
search.by |
The variable to search by (takes
a integer or a character string): 1- |
Useful for finding packages by the same author (usually the same as the maintainer). This function will take some time as the function is searching thousands of packages via CRAN's website.
BondedDust (stackoverflow.com) and Tyler Rinker <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>
https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html#summary_by_maintainer http://stackoverflow.com/a/10082624/1000343
## Not run:
p_search_any("hadley", 1)
p_sa("hadley", "author")
p_sa("color", 2)
p_sa("psych", "package")
## End(Not run)