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RWsearch

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

v5.2.6 · Jul 31, 2025 · GPL-2

Description

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.

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CRAN Check Status

13 OK
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Flavor Status
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 2, 2026
ERROR 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

examples

Running examples in ‘RWsearch-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: p_archive
> ### Title: Read Packages in CRAN archive
> ### Aliases: p_archive p_archive_lst l_targz
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> if (interactive()) p_archive(brew
...[truncated]...
TTP/2 framing layer'
Error in utils::download.file(url, destfile, method = "libcurl", quiet = TRUE,  : 
  cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/RWsearch'
Calls: p_archive_lst -> trydownloadurl -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies brew latexpdf networkD3 sig sos XML RWsearch

Version History

new 5.2.6 Mar 10, 2026
updated 5.2.6 ← 5.2.4 diff Jul 30, 2025
updated 5.2.4 ← 5.2.0 diff Mar 12, 2025
updated 5.2.0 ← 5.1.4 diff Oct 11, 2024
updated 5.1.4 ← 5.0.5 diff Mar 2, 2024
updated 5.0.5 ← 4.9.8 diff Feb 21, 2022
updated 4.9.8 ← 4.9.3 diff Dec 2, 2021
updated 4.9.3 ← 4.8.0 diff Jun 4, 2021
updated 4.8.0 ← 4.7.0 diff Apr 19, 2020
updated 4.7.0 ← 4.6.2 diff Feb 14, 2020
updated 4.6.2 ← 4.6 diff Aug 18, 2019
updated 4.6 ← 4.5 diff May 28, 2019
new 4.5 Mar 26, 2019