Cortexa research tool·cs ml·cran

CRAN Get Package

Get metadata for a CRAN R package from the CRAN database (crandb). Returns package title, version, description, authors, license, dependencies (Imports, Suggests, Depends), URL, publication date, and release history. CRAN hosts 20,000+ R packages for statistical computing, bioinformatics, data visualization, and machine learning. Use for discovering R package information, checking versions, and finding dependencies.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 100msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 100ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "package": {
      "description": "R package name (case-sensitive). Examples: 'ggplot2', 'dplyr', 'Seurat', 'DESeq2', 'tidyr', 'data.table', 'BiocManager', 'limma'",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "package"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default CRAN Get Package call

public-safeinput

{
  "package": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_CRAN_get_package
Tool name: CRAN_get_package
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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