Ability to search package data?

[jrosen48]

Thank you for developing an awesome package. Is there the ability to search package data (built-in datasets)?

[maelle]

I think the scope of pkgsearch is only metadata of packages. @gaborcsardi?

However your question reminds me of an rOpenSci unconf project: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/data-packages

[gaborcsardi]

I think it is very much in scope. I wish we could index everything, especially documentation. But that would need a much bigger search server, indexing needs a lot of resources. So we can leave this issue open.

OTOH there are some projects already that index documentation, and thus the public data objects as well.

[jrosen48]

Thank you @maelle and @gaborcsardi.

@maelle, I've started exploring the data-packages project - very helpful, and the motivation for why I asked that. If you or others are interested in working on that with me, I'd like to connect. I think it could be very helpful for teaching and learning; surprisingly, there just aren't that many accessible, possibly relevant collections of datasets available in immediately-useable formats for those purposes (in my view).

[maelle]

I'd lack time but if you were to revive this project I'd encourage you to ping its authors + to post on rOpenSci forum maybe?