Message-ID: <20090507180930.GA1619@psych.upenn.edu>
Date: 2009-05-07T18:09:30Z
From: Jonathan Baron
Subject: proposed changes to RSiteSearch
In-Reply-To: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFA073C46FD@usctmx1106.merck.com>
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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