searcher

0.0.7

Query Search Interfaces

2packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

93.1%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by James BalamutaFirst published 2018-01-166 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a search interface to look up terms on 'Google', 'Bing', 'DuckDuckGo', 'Startpage', 'Ecosia', 'rseek', 'Twitter', 'StackOverflow', 'RStudio Community', 'GitHub', and 'BitBucket'. Upon searching, a browser window will open with the aforementioned search results.

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("coatless-rpkg/searcher")

Development version from coatless-rpkg/searcher. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-searcher

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-searcher

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-searcher

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 54 s · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.59

93.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 748 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,685 · ~16/day · ~481/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24530 days

95890 days

5.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ coatless-rpkg/searcher

81Stars

5Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

76Commits

2Contributors

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76 commits · Last activity 2025-05-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 772026-07-07 · 81

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/coatless-rpkg/searcher on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat covr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

SemNetCleaner errorist

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

James Balamuta

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

James Balamuta

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Alex Rossell Hayes

Contributor · added in 0.0.6

Package Timeline

6 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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-07-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-01-16
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-16
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 22 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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