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For some reason, I find it harder to find what I'm looking for in the R help than just about any other language. That's why you end up not knowing about useful

• glamp 14y ago
  It's not just you. This was a huge problem for me at first. When you're googling search "R cran" + your query You'll get way better results
• rcthompson 14y ago
  There's an R-specific search engine called Rseek: http://www.rseek.org/ http://www.rseek.org/ It's still not perfect, because if you don't know the right keyword for a concept you might not get what you're looking for. But it's pretty good.
• S4M 14y ago
  When looking for an R package that does something specific, I usually go to the R package list [1] and search for what I am looking for ("SQL" if I want an SQL connector or "sparse" if I want something with sparse matrix). I generally end up finding a package that does what I need. [1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by...