From: Duncan Murdoch > > On 5/7/2009 10:18 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > > On 05/07/09 10:05, Liaw, Andy wrote: > >> Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to > >> RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning > some changes > >> on his site. Jon: could you elaborate on what the patch does? > > > > The idea is simply to remove the mail archives, so the > search will be > > only of functions' help pages. Eventually I will also add package > > vignettes, but I don't think we need anything special for that. I > > can't imagine that someone would want to search just > vignettes and not > > help pages, or the reverse. > > > > The reasons are: 1. The mail archives are becoming increasingly > > difficult and time consuming for me to maintain. 2. There are now > > three other ways of searching mail archives, all of which seem much > > better than mine, but there seem to be no other good ways to search > > help pages for functions, and, indeed, the new RSiteSearch packages > > does only functions. 3. With only functions it would be much easier > > for someone to set up a complete mirror of my site, which > seems like a > > good idea. > > I'll incorporate the changes if you like. What do you think > of the idea > of adding a gmane (or other archive) search to your results > page? Then > if someone doesn't like what the man pages show, you can send them > somewhere else, rather than leaving them to find out the > other resources > themselves. > > gmane has sample code for this on their search page > search.gmane.org, so > it looks reasonably easy. I'd suggest following their last example, > with a drop-down box to select mailing lists, with > comp.lang.r.* as an > option for "all lists". > > Duncan Murdoch
Actually, I was thinking about a possible RHelpSearch() in addition, if Jon is no longer going to include the R-help archive in the search. I used the current RSiteSearch() a lot more for searching R-help archive than functions in packages. Ideas? comments? Andy Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel