That would work, although it would entail standing up a server to front the elasticsearch module. The strikes me a huge investment of time which would, in addition, recreate the current key man risk.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Kevin Coombes <kevin.r.coom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it make sense to recreate the "searchable R help pages" by feeding > them all into elasticsearch, which will automatically index them and also > provides an extensive (HTTP+JSON-based) API to perform complex searches? > > On 9/8/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote: > >> On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote: >> >>> Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at all >>> averse >>> to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well be a >>> good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a page >>> and >>> to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable. >>> >> >> The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help >> files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except >> the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should >> re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for >> every package, but the individual functions are not separated. >> >> But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package >> would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do >> this. But I would welcome it. >> >> Jon >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel