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Find R Packages Matching Either Descriptions or Other R Packages

v0.5.4 · Jun 10, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Find R packages from CRAN, 'rOpenSci', or Bioconductor corpora. Packages can be matched to general text descriptions, to names of installed packages, or to local paths to entire source repositories. The package is used to list the most similar packages for each new submission to the 'rOpenSci' software peer-review program ('rOpenSci' authors, 2026; <doi:10.5281/zenodo.18885936>).

Downloads

CRAN

381

Last 30 days

10500th

381

Last 90 days

381

Last year

CRAN Check Status

13 OK
Show all 13 flavors
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 1 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies brio checkmate cli curl dplyr fs httr2 memoise piggyback Rcpp rvest tibble tidyr tokenizers treesitter +2 more dependencies pkgmatch

Version History

1 tracked
new 0.5.4 Jun 10, 2026