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

Hi Jonathan,

I have neither the resources nor the skills to take over, but whatever 
happens I want to thank you for all the work. Too often people forget 
that all these nice tools keep working due to the devotion of people 
like you.

So thank you!

Cheers
Joris


On 8 Sep 2016 04:08, "Jonathan Baron" <baron at psych.upenn.edu 
<mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>> wrote:

    Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.

    I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
    drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
    to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
    some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
    indexing to hang completely.

    I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
    work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
    tomorrow, if it works overnight.)

    Jon

    On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:

        Spencer,

        Thanks for the quick reply.

        I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my
        site and
        trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more
        than
        one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also
        generate
        errors.

        My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
        files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and
        Fedora
        maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:

        m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
        m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
        source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R
        <http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R>")
        update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
        update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load","
        --no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--html
        "),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
        m3 <- new.packages()
        install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-loa
        d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--
        html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())

        Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
        packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you
        don't
        use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.

        Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora
        maintainers
        of R have set some defaults that are helpful.

        Jon

        On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:

            Hello, All:


                  Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
            RSiteSearch database.


                  This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web
            service that Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch
            function in the utils package.  (3) The sos package, for
            which I'm the maintainer and lead author.


                  Might someone else be willing to take these over?


                  For me, the "findFn" capability with
            "writeFindFn2xls" is the fastest literature search for
            anything statistical.  However, I don't have the resources
            to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search database.


                  He's provided a great service for the R community
            for many years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the
            system maintained. Failing that, I could use help in
            adapting the sos package to another database.


                  Thanks,
                  Spencer Graves


            -------- Forwarded Message --------
            Subject:        Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org
            <http://rdocumentation.org>, ...?
            Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
            From:   Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
            <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>
            To:     Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
            <mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>>
            CC:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
            <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>, chris.is.fun at gmail.com
            <mailto:chris.is.fun at gmail.com>, info at datacamp.com
            <mailto:info at datacamp.com> <info at datacamp.com
            <mailto:info at datacamp.com>>, Sundar Dorai-Raj
            <sdorairaj at gmail.com <mailto:sdorairaj at gmail.com>>,
            webmaster at www.r-project-org



            R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip,
            mknmz, failed
            to complete. It has been producing more and more errors
            and warnings,
            since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.

            I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things
            to do aside
            from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't
            know (Perl),
            or set up an alternative search engine.

            Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.

            I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org
            <http://www.r-project.org> webmaster, so I'm
            taking a stab. There are several links to this site in
            those pages.

            Jon
            -- 
            Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
            Pennsylvania
            Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
            <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
            Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)


        -- 
        Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
        Pennsylvania
        Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
        <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
        Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)


    -- 
    Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
    Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
    <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
    Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)