pkgmatch: Find R Packages Matching Either Descriptions or Other R Packages
Find R packages from CRAN, 'rOpenSci', or Bioconductor corpora. Packages can be matched to general text descriptions, to names of installed packages, or to local paths to entire source repositories. The package is used to list the most similar packages for each new submission to the 'rOpenSci' software peer-review program ('rOpenSci' authors, 2026; <doi:10.5281/zenodo.18885936>).
| Version: | 0.5.4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | brio, checkmate, cli, curl (≥ 6.0.0), dplyr, fs, httr2, memoise, piggyback, Rcpp, rvest, tibble, tidyr, tokenizers, treesitter, treesitter.r, vctrs |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | gert, hms, httptest2, jsonlite, pkgbuild, rappdirs, roxygen2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-06-10 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgmatch |
| Author: | Mark Padgham 
[aut, cre],
Davis Vaughan [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Mark Padgham <mark.padgham at email.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/pkgmatch/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://docs.ropensci.org/pkgmatch/, https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/pkgmatch |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Language: | en-GB |
| CRAN checks: | pkgmatch results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | pkgmatch.html , pkgmatch.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Example applications (source, R code) Data caching and updating (source, R code) The pkgmatch package (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | pkgmatch_0.5.4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: pkgmatch_0.5.4.zip, r-release: pkgmatch_0.5.4.zip, r-oldrel: pkgmatch_0.5.4.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): pkgmatch_0.5.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pkgmatch_0.5.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pkgmatch_0.5.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pkgmatch_0.5.4.tgz |
Linking:
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pkgmatch to link to this page.