CRAN Task Views

CRAN task views aim to provide guidance which packages on 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.

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 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 resources available from the CRAN Task View Initiative provide further information on how to contribute to existing task views and how to propose new task views.

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