available
Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting
Check if a given package name is available to use. It checks the name's validity. Checks if it is used on 'GitHub', 'CRAN' and 'Bioconductor'. Checks for unintended meanings by querying Urban Dictionary, 'Wiktionary' and Wikipedia.
- Checks for validity
- Checks not already available on GitHub, CRAN and Bioconductor
- Searches Urban Dictionary, Wiktionary and Wikipedia for unintended meanings
- Can suggest possible names based on text in the package title or description.
Installation
You can install available from CRAN with:
install.packages("available")
Or the development version from GitHub with:
devtools::install_github("ropenscilabs/available")
Examples
Generate new package names from titles
library(available)suggest(text = "Client for New York Times APIs")#> [1] "timesr"suggest(text = "An R Interface to SciDB")#> [1] "scidbr"
Rstudio Support
RStudio versions 1.1 and later support color in the terminal.
News
available 1.0.2
- Add dialog when run interactively asking if urban dictionary results should be included, as they can potentially contain offensive results (#41).
- Use BiocManager for compatibility with future versions of R.
available 1.0.1
- Filter own repo from GitHub results (#21).
get_urban_data()is now exported (#34).- No longer trimming r or R when proceeded by a vowel from search terms, as originally intended (#35).
- Support for upcoming glue 1.3.0 release
available 1.0.0
- Initial release