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

[Duncan Murdoch]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days.
>>> (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)
>>
>>
>> I'd suggest "R help online...".
> 
> 
> But, it is not 'help online': it is searching docs and past help.

That's "help" in the Windows Help-menu sense, but the important word is 
"online".  Some alternatives:

"R online..."  (sounds like it runs R online, but maybe the context is 
enough)
"Search online..."  (easily confused with a general Google search)
"R sites online..."

In any case, the 2 or 3 words in the menu aren't going to be the only 
clue to the user:  the dialog box should give a line or two describing 
what will happen when you do the search.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
>> After the release, I think this should go into R-patched.  Do we have 
>> tools to tell the translators all the new strings that need 
>> translating, or should they be explicitly informed about such a thing?
> 
> 
> Yes, msgmerge/msgfmt tells them.  The message catalogues change almost 
> daily as people add features.
>