The packagefinder package provides findPackage() for full-text keyword searches across CRAN package names, titles, and descriptions, with results displayed in the console, RStudio viewer, or browser. It ships with an RStudio add-in for graphical searches and helper functions for viewing package details and tracking new CRAN releases.

What’s covered#

  • findPackage() – keywords, mode (“and”/“or”), case.sensitive, limit.results, display, return.df, clipboard arguments
  • Output options – console, viewer, and browser display; dataframe return; clipboard copy
  • RStudio add-in – graphical interface to findPackage() and whatsNew() with install and review features
  • Additional functions – whatsNew(), packageDetails(), lastResults(), go(), fp() shorthand