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RStudio addin to search CRAN packages titles and descriptions

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# CRANsearcher <img src="inst/image/hex/CRANsearcher_hexSticker.png" width = "175" height = "200" align="right" /> 
RStudio addin to search CRAN packages titles and descriptions

# About 
One of the strengths of R is its vast [package ecosystem](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html). Indeed, R packages extend from visualization to bayesian inference and from spatial analyses to pharmacokinetics (https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/). There is probably not an area of quantitative research that isn't represented by at least one R package. At the time of this writing, there are more than [10,000](https://rdrr.io/all/cran/) active CRAN packages. Because of this massive ecosystem, it is important to have tools to search and learn about packages related to your personal R needs. For this reason, we developed an RStudio addin capable of searching available CRAN packages directly within RStudio.

# Installation
```devtools::install_github("RhoInc/CRANsearcher")```

# Use
After installation, the add-in will be available in your Rstudio add-in dropdown menu.  Simply select "CRANsearcher" from the menu to run the application.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RhoInc/CRANsearcher/master/inst/image/gif/CRANsearcher_addin.gif)

# Inspiration

We must acknowledge a few great resources that helped inspire ideas behind this add-in:
- Code [snippet](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11560865/list-and-description-of-all-packages-in-cran-from-within-r) for querying CRAN database
- Dean Attali's [addinslist](https://github.com/daattali/addinslist) and Colin Gillespie's [addinmanager](https://github.com/csgillespie/addinmanager)
- Mikhail Popov's taskviewr Shiny [app](https://github.com/bearloga/taskviewr)

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