[Rd] patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Tue Apr 12 19:16:57 CEST 2005


> From: Prof Brian Ripley
> 
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
> > Please consider adding the following to the next R release 
> (I understand
> > that it's too late for R-2.1.0).  It adds the menu item 
> `Search R Site' in
> > the `Help' menu in Rgui (which calls RSiteSearch() on the 
> input string).
> 
> Can you or someone else think of a better name?  That sounds like it 
> searches www.r-project.org.  I think even 'R Sites Search' would be 
> better.

I can't (sorry, not very imaginative...).  Your suggestion is as good as I
can see.

I guess I can also add more descriptive phrase, e.g., 

   s = askstring(G_("Search in R documentations and R-help archive"), olds);

Any other suggestions?

Best,
Andy
 
> Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days.
> (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)
> 
> >
> > Best,
> > Andy
> >
> > --- R-beta/src/gnuwin32/rui.c	2005-03-06 
> 09:41:40.000000000 -0500
> > +++ R-beta-new/src/gnuwin32/rui.c	2005-04-12 
> 08:21:55.001824500 -0400
> > @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
> > static menuitem msource, mdisplay, mload, msave, mloadhistory,
> >     msavehistory, mpaste, mpastecmds, mcopy, mcopypaste, 
> mlazy, mconfig,
> >     mls, mrm, msearch, mhelp, mmanintro, mmanref, mmandata,
> > -    mmanext, mmanlang, mmanadmin, mman0, mapropos, 
> mhelpstart, mhelpsearch,
> >
> > +    mmanext, mmanlang, mmanadmin, mman0, mapropos, 
> mhelpstart, mhelpsearch,
> > +    msearchRsite,
> >     mFAQ, mrwFAQ, mpkgl, mpkgm, mpkgi, mpkgil, mpkgu, 
> /*mpkgb, mpkgbu,*/
> >     mde, mCRAN, mrepos;
> > static int lmanintro, lmanref, lmandata, lmanlang, lmanext, 
> lmanadmin;
> > @@ -485,6 +486,21 @@
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > +static void menusearchRsite(control m)
> > +{
> > +    char *s;
> > +    static char olds[256] = "";
> > +
> > +    if (!ConsoleAcceptCmd) return;
> > +    s = askstring(G_("Search R Site"), olds);
> > +    if (s && strlen(s)) {
> > +	snprintf(cmd, 1024, "RSiteSearch(\"%s\")", s);
> > +	if (strlen(s) > 255) s[255] = '\0';
> > +	strcpy(olds, s);
> > +	consolecmd(RConsole, cmd);
> > +    }
> > +}
> > +
> > static void menuapropos(control m)
> > {
> >     char *s;
> > @@ -560,6 +576,7 @@
> > 	enable(msearch);
> > 	enable(mhelp);
> > 	enable(mhelpsearch);
> > +	enable(msearchRsite);
> > 	enable(mapropos);
> > 	enable(mpkgl);
> > 	enable(mpkgm);
> > @@ -579,6 +596,7 @@
> > 	disable(msearch);
> > 	disable(mhelp);
> > 	disable(mhelpsearch);
> > +	disable(msearchRsite);
> > 	disable(mapropos);
> > 	disable(mpkgl);
> > 	disable(mpkgm);
> > @@ -985,6 +1003,7 @@
> >     MCHECK(mhelpstart = newmenuitem(G_("Html help"), 0, 
> menuhelpstart));
> >     if (!check_doc_file("doc\\html\\rwin.html")) 
> disable(mhelpstart);
> >     MCHECK(mhelpsearch = newmenuitem(G_("Search help..."), 0,
> > menuhelpsearch));
> > +    MCHECK(msearchRsite = newmenuitem(G_("Search R Site..."), 0,
> > menusearchRsite));
> >     MCHECK(newmenuitem("-", 0, NULL));
> >     MCHECK(mapropos = newmenuitem(G_("Apropos..."), 0, 
> menuapropos));
> >     MCHECK(newmenuitem("-", 0, NULL));
> >
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> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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