RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:

Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at all 
averse
to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well 
be a
good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a 
page and
to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.

The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
every package, but the individual functions are not separated.

But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
this. But I would welcome it.

Jon

Would it make sense to recreate the "searchable R help pages" by feeding
them all into elasticsearch, which will automatically index them and also
provides an extensive (HTTP+JSON-based) API to perform complex searches?

On 9/8/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:

On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:

Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at all
averse
to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well be a
good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a page
and
to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.

The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
every package, but the individual functions are not separated.

But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
this. But I would welcome it.

Jon

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