FWIW R-hub indexes package metadata, and you can search it online:
https://r-pkg.org/search.html?q=time+series
or from within R:
https://r-hub.github.io/pkgsearch/

Gabor

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:13 AM beliavsky--- via R-devel
<r-devel@r-project.org> wrote:
>
> It's great that there are almost 20,000 R packages and that experts have 
> curated the R packages in task views, but the volume of packages is such that 
> task view maintainers may limit additions because of time constraints or 
> because they don't want the task views to become unwieldy. I suggest that 
> keywords, chosen by package authors from an approved list, be allowed in 
> package descriptions. The keywords could be the same as task view names (for 
> example "timeseries") or they could be more specialized (for example 
> "garch"). Users would be able to search packages by keyword. Ideally, all R 
> packages would be indexed and discoverable this way.
> I maintain a list of time series packages that were not in the task view at 
> the time I added them: 
> https://github.com/Beliavsky/R-Time-Series-Task-View-Supplement/blob/main/README.md.
>  There are almost 130 entries. I also have one for finance: 
> https://github.com/Beliavsky/R-Finance-Task-View-Supplement .
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