On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Patrick Burns wrote: > > [....] > > No, I'm not volunteering to build the system. > > Too bad! ;-) > > Indeed, the idea to index tens of thousands of functions could not be > appealing to many of us! Why not to consider to test such ideas at the > package level? I mean, building a system that points out the packages of > interest (those in CRAN, of course), given a search phrase would be a more > resonable work. Then, looking at online help of that particular package > would be the small additional effort required by the user. The problem here > is with heterogeneous packages (the XXXXmisc, and the like)...
This mail archive works well if the questions are well posed and answered: help.search.archive<-function(string){ RURL="http://www.google.com/u/newcastlemaths" RSearchURL=paste(RURL,"?q=",string,sep='') browseURL(RSearchURL) return(invisible(0)) } help.search.google<-function(string){ RURL="http://www.google.com/search" RSearchURL=paste(RURL,"?sitesearch=r-project.org&q=",string,sep='') browseURL(RSearchURL) return(invisible(0)) } help.search.archive('volatility') # may soon show Dr. Harrell's example help.search.google('volatility') # may show enough Is there package data that is not searchable through the google search? Dave -- Dave Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)684-7900w [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)642-0662h http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html