[Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

[Liaw, Andy]

From: Jonathan Baron
> 
> On 05/07/09 13:48, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > From: Duncan Murdoch 
> > > I'll incorporate the changes if you like.
> 
> Yes.  Please do.  I understand that it won't take effect for a while.
> When it does, I'll change my site.
> 
>   What do you think 
> > > of the idea 
> > > of adding a gmane (or other archive) search to your results 
> > > page?  Then 
> > > if someone doesn't like what the man pages show, you can 
> send them 
> > > somewhere else, rather than leaving them to find out the 
> > > other resources 
> > > themselves.
> > > 
> > > gmane has sample code for this on their search page 
> > > search.gmane.org, so 
> > > it looks reasonably easy.  I'd suggest following their 
> last example, 
> > > with a drop-down box to select mailing lists, with 
> > > comp.lang.r.* as an 
> > > option for "all lists".
> > > 
> > > Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Good idea.  I will do this.  But there are also two other good search
> engines.  Maybe I'll add all three search alternatives.  But then,
> according to Sheena Iyengar, people won't choose any!  Hmm.
> 
> > Actually, I was thinking about a possible RHelpSearch() in 
> addition, if
> > Jon is no longer going to include the R-help archive in the 
> search.  I
> > used the current RSiteSearch() a lot more for searching 
> R-help archive
> > than functions in packages.  Ideas?  comments?
> 
> This is OK with me, but I don't want to do it.  I guess it would
> search gmane.  MarkMail is also pretty good, as is
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ All these are much better than
> Namazu for searching the R-help list.

Sorry I didn't make it clear:  I meant something like the gmaneSearcg()
that Romain posted, not hitting your site.

Best,
Andy
 
> Jon
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