an R function to search on Prof. Baron's site
Using this function with 2.0.0 XP and Firefox 1.0 (I've rediscovered the internet) produces a curious result.
myString <- RSiteSearch(string = 'Ripley') myString
[1] "http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhe lp00/archive|Rhelp01/archive|Rhelp02a/archive;format=builtin-long;sort=score ;words=Ripley;matchesperpage=10"
version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 0.0 year 2004 month 10 day 04 language R If no browser is open, then this is the URL that is browsed in Firefox: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdigrun1;restrict=Rhel p00/archive Oddly, these two other windows are opened too: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp01/archive/1000.html and: http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch/msg17461.html This happens regardless of what the search string is. If a browser window is open then everything works as planned. The sticky bit, obviously, is parsing browseURL which has the same behavior if I try:
browseURL(myString)
However, the searches:
RSiteSearch(string = 'browseURL Firefox') RSiteSearch(string = 'browseURL Mozilla')
don't turn up much help! If I change browseURL to use IE then browseURL behaves as expected:
browseURL(myString, browser="C:/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/iexplore.exe") Specifying Firefox explicitly in browseURL doesn't help - It still opens three windows as above (if no browser is open):
browseURL(myString, browser="C:/Program Files/Mozilla
Firefox/firefox.exe") So, under Windows the 'NULL' argument in 'browser' which determines the browser via file association isn't the problem. Anybody know how I can make Firefox work a little more smoothly? Thanks, Andy
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:56 PM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] an R function to search on Prof. Baron's site Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw <at> merck.com> writes: : : Inspired by the functions that Barry Rawlingson and Dave Forrest posted for : searching Rwiki and R-help archive, I've made up a function that does the : search on Prof. Baron's site (Thanks to Prof. Baron's help on setting up the : query string!): It would be nice if this and the other search functions recently posted were collected into a package or even integrated into R itself. In the case of the Windows Rgui, it would be nice if they appeared on a menu with the other search and help functions.
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