proposed changes to RSiteSearch
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. Jon
Andy
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