Fetch R package based on keyword — find

This function gets R packages based on a keyword in their description.

Usage

find_packages(keyword)

Arguments

keyword: character, the keyword to search package descriptions for.

Value

character vector of matching package names or NULL if no matches.

Note

the function in its current form only searches available.packages()

Examples

# \donttest{
# find the list of R packages for data or machine learning

matched_pkgs <- suppressWarnings(find_packages("plotting"))
matched_pkgs
#>  [1] "ape"           "coda"          "colorspace"    "fields"       
#>  [5] "GGally"        "ggfortify"     "gplots"        "gstat"        
#>  [9] "hexbin"        "latex2exp"     "MALDIquant"    "manipulate"   
#> [13] "plotcli"       "shape"         "sp"            "spacetime"    
#> [17] "spatstat.geom" "stars"         "weights"       "wordcloud"    

matched_pkgs <- suppressWarnings(find_packages("machine learning"))
matched_pkgs
#>  [1] "autokeras"  "binr"       "card.pro"   "data.tree"  "kernlab"   
#>  [6] "openNLP"    "psych"      "scientific" "simrel"     "tensorflow"
#> [11] "terra"     
# }