Cache 'CRAN'-Like Metadata and R Packages

Metadata and package cache for CRAN-like repositories. This is a utility package to be used by package management tools that want to take advantage of caching.

The Iterative Signature Algorithm

The ISA is a biclustering algorithm that finds modules in an input matrix. A module or bicluster is a block of the reordered input matrix.

Package Dependency Resolution and Downloads

Find recursive dependencies of 'R' packages from various sources. Solve the dependencies to obtain a consistent set of packages to install. Download packages, and install them. It supports packages on 'CRAN', 'Bioconductor' and other 'CRAN-like' repositories, 'GitHub', package 'URLs', and local package trees and files. It caches metadata and package files via the 'pkgcache' package, and performs all 'HTTP' requests, downloads, builds and installations in parallel. 'pkgdepends' is the workhorse of the 'pak' package.

Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'

Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.

Open System Files, 'URLs', Anything

Cross platform solution to open files, directories or 'URLs' with their associated programs.

A Collection of Small Text Corpora of Interesting Data

A collection of small text corpora of interesting data. It contains all data sets from 'dariusk/corpora'. Some examples: names of animals: birds, dinosaurs, dogs; foods: beer categories, pizza toppings; geography: English towns, rivers, oceans; humans: authors, US presidents, occupations; science: elements, planets; words: adjectives, verbs, proverbs, US president quotes.

Praise Users

Build friendly R packages that praise their users if they have done something good, or they just need it to feel better.

Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

Allow sharing sensitive information, for example passwords, 'API' keys, etc., in R packages, using public key cryptography.

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 'Wiktionary' and Wikipedia.

Run CRAN URL Checks from Older R Versions

Provide the URL checking tools available in R 4.1+ as a package for earlier versions of R. Also uses concurrent requests so can be much faster than the serial versions.