Check if the Title of a Package is Available, Appropriate and Interesting

Check if a given package name is available to use. It checks the name's validity. Checks if it is used on 'GitHub', 'CRAN' and 'Bioconductor'. Checks for unintended meanings by querying 'Wiktionary' and Wikipedia.

available

available helps you name your R package.

• Checks for validity
• Checks not already available on GitHub, CRAN and Bioconductor
• Can suggest possible names based on text in the package title or description.

Installation

You can install available from CRAN with:

install.packages("available")

Or the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("r-lib/available")

Examples

Generate new package names from titles

library(available)
suggest(text = "Client for New York Times APIs")
#> timesr

suggest(text = "An R Interface to SciDB")
#> scidbr

Rstudio Support

RStudio versions 1.1 and later support color in the terminal.