patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

I believe that is the official search page as it is linked from the main
BioConductor webpage www.bioconductor.org as 'Searchable Mail Archives'
under 'Project' on the left pane. It is maintained by Istvan Albert
(iua1@psu.edu) who might be able to provide more information.

It would be nice to have the BioConductor mailing archives under
Jonathon Baron's page for comprehensiveness but I am not sure how much
extra work this would be and if he is willing to do so.


Otherwise, here are two functions that may get around this

 BiocSiteSearch <- function( string ){ 
   # Searches query 'string' on the BioConductor searchable mail archive
   prefix <- "http://files.protsuggest.org/cgi-bin/biocond.cgi?search="
   string <- paste( prefix, gsub(" ", "+", string), sep = "")
   browseURL( string )
 }


And then perhaps generalise to 

 online.search <- function( string, archive, ... ){

   archive <- pmatch( toupper( arhive ), 
                      c("R", "BIOCONDUCTOR", "OMEGAHAT" )

   if(is.na(archive)) stop("Invalid value for 'archive'")

   qstring <- switch ( archive,
                              1 = RSiteSearch(string),
                              2 = BiocSiteSearch(string),
                              3 = OmegaSiteSearch(string)
                      )

    browseURL( qstring )
 }

Regards, Adai

From: Duncan Murdoch

Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:

While on the subject, may I also suggest that a menu item 

to search the

BioConductor archives be added.

 Archives             : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/
 Search-able archives : 

http://files.protsuggest.org/cgi-> bin/biocond.cgi

I hope 

this is not an unreasonable 
request considering that there is

menu item to select repositories to include BioConductor in 

R-2.1.0beta.

I think this would make more sense as an enhancement to 
search.r-project.org (the site where RSiteSearch sends the search 
request) than to Rgui.

Duncan Murdoch

Jonathan had committed to keep his site up (and gave a very detail set of
instructions on how to reconstruct the search page, in case his can not be
maintained), before RSiteSearch() was admitted to base R.  Is the search
site Adai mentioned the `official' BioC archive search page?

BTW, Jonathan's search page already includes (all?) BioC packages.  The only
missing part is the mailing list archives.

Andy



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