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CRAN Task View Initiative

CRAN task views aim to provide guidance which packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) are relevant for tasks related to a certain topic. They give a brief overview of the included packages which can also be automatically installed using the ctv package. The views are intended to have a sharp focus so that it is sufficiently clear which packages should be included (or excluded) - and they are not meant to endorse the "best" packages for a given task.

Installation

To automatically install the views, the ctv package needs to be installed, e.g., via

install.packages("ctv")

and then the views can be installed via install.views() or update.views() (where the latter only installs those packages which are not installed and up-to-date), e.g.,

ctv::install.views("Econometrics")
ctv::update.views("Econometrics")

To query information about a particular task view on CRAN from within R or to obtain the list of all task views available, respectively, the following commands are provided:

ctv::ctv("Econometrics")
ctv::available.views()

The task views as a whole are overseen and coordinated by the CRAN Task View Editors and each individual task view is maintained by a group of volunteers. See below for details on how to contribute to an existing task view or propose a new one.

CRAN Task View Editors

The current team is:

Former contributors include: Henrik Bengtsson, Rocío Joo, David Meyer, Heather Turner.

How to contribute?

For contributing to an existing task view please go to the respective repository (see links below) and follow the guidelines in Contributing.

For proposing a new task view please follow the guidelines in Proposal.

Guidelines for the maintainers of CRAN task views are provided in Maintenance.

Technical documentation about the task view format is in Documentation. Some more details can be found R-Forge page of the ctv package.

For other questions regarding CRAN task views as a whole, please open an issue in this repository. For contact via e-mail, please write to CRAN-task-views@R-project.org.

All contributions must be made under the Code of conduct.

Citation

Achim Zeileis, Roger Bivand, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Kurt Hornik, Nathalie Vialaneix (2023). "CRAN Task Views: The Next Generation." arXiv 2305.17573, arXiv.org E-Print Archive. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2305.17573.