Message-ID: <425CEA2A.3090101@math.aau.dk>
Date: 2005-04-13T11:45:22Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504130955280.7213@gannet.stats>
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please consider adding the following to the next R release (I
>>>> understand
>>>> that it's too late for R-2.1.0). It adds the menu item `Search R
>>>> Site' in
>>>> the `Help' menu in Rgui (which calls RSiteSearch() on the input
>>>> string).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you or someone else think of a better name? That sounds like it
>>> searches www.r-project.org. I think even 'R Sites Search' would be
>>> better.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days.
>>> (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)
>>
>>
>> I'd suggest "R help online...".
>
>
> But, it is not 'help online': it is searching docs and past help.
That's "help" in the Windows Help-menu sense, but the important word is
"online". Some alternatives:
"R online..." (sounds like it runs R online, but maybe the context is
enough)
"Search online..." (easily confused with a general Google search)
"R sites online..."
In any case, the 2 or 3 words in the menu aren't going to be the only
clue to the user: the dialog box should give a line or two describing
what will happen when you do the search.
Duncan Murdoch
>
>> After the release, I think this should go into R-patched. Do we have
>> tools to tell the translators all the new strings that need
>> translating, or should they be explicitly informed about such a thing?
>
>
> Yes, msgmerge/msgfmt tells them. The message catalogues change almost
> daily as people add features.
>