John Sorkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...

> As far as finding packages goes, I believe 
> that R would be a better tool if a package 
> finder were built into the R distribution 
> and added to the menus presented by the R
> GUI. The package finder would allow the user 
> to enter search words and the package finder 
> would return a series of packages along with 
> brief précis to each package and a link to 
> package reviews.  I know that this suggestion 
> would require a lot of work....

What would seem to come  closest to this
presently is be to take Brian Ripley's advice,
install every package that will, and then 
query the lot of them with help.search().

-John Thaden

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