RWsearch

5.2.6

Lazy Search in R Packages, Task Views, CRAN, the Web. All-in-One Download

0packages depend

7.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Patrice KienerFirst published 2019-03-2712 releasesCRAN page ↗

Search by keywords in R packages, task views, CRAN, the web and display the results in the console or in txt, html or pdf files. Download the package documentation (html index, README, NEWS, pdf manual, vignettes, source code, binaries) with a single instruction. Visualize the package dependencies and CRAN checks. Compare the package versions, unload and install the packages and their dependencies in a safe order. Explore CRAN archives. Use the above functions for task view maintenance. Access web search engines from the console thanks to 80+ bookmarks. All functions accept standard and non-standard evaluation.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("RWsearch", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rwsearch

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-RWsearch

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-RWsearch

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 623 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 3%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,684 · ~20/day · ~602/mo

Releases R versions

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29430 days

1.6K90 days

7.2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (6)

brew latexpdf networkD3 sig sos XML

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ctv findR foghorn pacman litedown xfun

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Patrice Kiener

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.9.3

Authors (1)

Patrice Kiener

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.9.3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Patrice Kiener ()

no longer listed · 4.5 to 4.8.0

Package Timeline

12 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
5.2.6Latest
2025-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
5.2.4
2025-03-13 · diff ↗
5.2.0
2024-10-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
5.1.4
2024-03-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
5.0.5
2022-02-22 · diff ↗
4.9.8
2021-12-03 · diff ↗
4.9.3
2021-06-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
4.8.0
2020-04-20 · diff ↗
4.7.0
2020-02-15 · diff ↗

Show 5 earlier events

4.6.2
2019-08-19 · diff ↗
4.6
2019-05-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
4.5
2019-03-27
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-27
Total releases: 12 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 138 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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