On 11/9/2014 4:50 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves <at> prodsyse.com> writes:
Might it be appropriate to add "http://metacran.github.io/search";
and the "sos" package to the official list of R search capabilities at
"www.r-project.org/search.html"? [Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of
"sos".]
Best Wishes,
Spencer Graves
I would go farther and nominate the sos package for inclusion as
a recommended package (I don't have any conflict of interest in
making the suggestion). When I tell students about it many of them
are puzzled that it's not part of the core R framework. I understand
the arguments against migrating new functionality into core R, but
this functionality is super-useful especially for beginners, and
it seems worth it to lower the bar for finding help, at the cost
of not a huge amount of extra code to maintain.
Thanks. For me, "sos" has provided the fastest literature search
I've found for anything statistical (including using "installPackages"
and "writeFindFn2xls", which could be overlooked by people using only
"findFn"). Gone are the days when I'd puzzle for hours over a single
line or page of mathematics. If I don't understand something, I give
examples to the code, and see what I get -- possibly using debug to
trace what it does line by line. If I don't find what I want with
"sos", then I can look elsewhere.
I only became aware of "http://metacran.github.io/search/";,
"http://www.rdocumentation.org/";, and
"http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html"; through
responses earlier in this thread, so I can't compare "sos" to these
other capabilities.
Spencer Graves
Ben Bolker
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