I agree! Recall, though, I had added the RSiteSearch() functionality to the Rgui under Windows (Help / search.r-project.org...), so if RSiteSearch() is taken out, this need to go, too.
Best, Andy From: Jonathan Baron > > There is something to be said for taking all of these functions, > including the original RSiteSearch, out of utils and putting them in > the new RSiteSearch package. These are the sorts of things that will > get revised frequently, and this way (I think) we won't have to bother > whoever takes care of utils, which is part of the regular R > distribution. > > I'm adding Spencer Graves to the cc list. Maybe he is interested in > doing this. > > Jon > > On 05/07/09 20:54, Romain Francois wrote: > > We could have a few functions similar to RSiteSearch or > gmaneSearch I > > just posted and then cook a summary html page with R ... > > > > Here is a function that grabs relevant groups from gmane: > > > > gmaneGroups <- function( prefix = "gmane.comp.lang.r." ){ > > url <- URLencode( sprintf( > > "http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=%s", prefix) ) > > txt <- grep( '^<tr.*<td align=right.*<a', readLines( > url ), value = > > TRUE ) > > > > rx <- '^.*?<a href="(.*?)">(.*?)</a>.*<td>(.*?)</td>.*$' > > out <- data.frame( > > url = gsub( rx, "\\1", txt ), > > group = gsub( rx, "\\2", txt ), > > description = gsub( rx, "\\3", txt ), > > stringsAsFactors = FALSE > > ) > > out$group <- sub( "...", ".*", out$group, fixed = TRUE ) > > out > > } > > > > I'll clean this up and write a man page if there is > interest in adding > > this to R, but this might be more appropriate in a package, > for example: > > http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rsitesearch/ > > > > Romain > > > > Liaw, Andy wrote: > > > From: Jonathan Baron > > > > > >> On 05/07/09 13:48, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > >> > > >>> From: Duncan Murdoch > > >>> > > >>>> I'll incorporate the changes if you like > > >>>> > > >> Yes. Please do. I understand that it won't take effect > for a while. > > >> When it does, I'll change my site. > > >> > > >> 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 > > >>>> > > >> Good idea. I will do this. But there are also two > other good search > > >> engines. Maybe I'll add all three search alternatives. > But then, > > >> according to Sheena Iyengar, people won't choose any! Hmm. > > >> > > >> > > >>> 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? > > >>> > > >> This is OK with me, but I don't want to do it. I guess it would > > >> search gmane. MarkMail is also pretty good, as is > > >> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ All these are much better than > > >> Namazu for searching the R-help list. > > >> > > > > > > Sorry I didn't make it clear: I meant something like the > gmaneSearcg() > > > that Romain posted, not hitting your site. > > > > > > Best, > > > Andy > > > > > > > > >> Jon > > >> > > > > > > -- > > Romain Francois > > Independent R Consultant > > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 > > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > > > > -- > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania > Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron > Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org) > 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