Re: [Rd] Add keywords to descriptions of R packages

2021-08-21 Thread Gábor Csárdi
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 wrote: > > It's great that there are almost 20,000 R packages and th

Re: [Rd] Add keywords to descriptions of R packages

2021-08-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 21/08/2021 3:11 p.m., beliavsky--- via R-devel 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 d

[Rd] Add keywords to descriptions of R packages

2021-08-21 Thread beliavsky--- via R-devel
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 tha

[Rd] problems with [.terms

2021-08-21 Thread Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel
The survival package uses [.terms a fair bit, in particular it makes use of the index returned in the 'specials' attribute, but the base R code has at least two problems. First, it does not account for offset terms, if present, and also fails for a formula such as  y ~ age + (sex=='male').   Y