[Rd] proposed changes to RSiteSearch

[Liaw, Andy]

 I agree!  Recall, though, I had added the RSiteSearch() functionality
to the Rgui under Windows (Help / search.r-project.org...), so if
RSiteSearch() is taken out, this need to go, too.

Best,
Andy

From: Jonathan Baron
> 
> There is something to be said for taking all of these functions,
> including the original RSiteSearch, out of utils and putting them in
> the new RSiteSearch package.  These are the sorts of things that will
> get revised frequently, and this way (I think) we won't have to bother
> whoever takes care of utils, which is part of the regular R
> distribution.
> 
> I'm adding Spencer Graves to the cc list.  Maybe he is interested in
> doing this.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 05/07/09 20:54, Romain Francois wrote:
> > We could have a few functions similar to RSiteSearch or 
> gmaneSearch I 
> > just posted and then cook a summary html page with R ...
> > 
> > Here is a function that grabs relevant groups from gmane:
> > 
> > gmaneGroups <- function( prefix = "gmane.comp.lang.r." ){
> >     url <- URLencode( sprintf( 
> > "http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=%s", prefix) )
> >     txt <- grep( '^<tr.*<td align=right.*<a', readLines( 
> url ), value = 
> > TRUE )
> >    
> >     rx <- '^.*?<a href="(.*?)">(.*?)</a>.*<td>(.*?)</td>.*$'
> >     out <- data.frame(
> >         url = gsub( rx, "\\1", txt ),
> >         group = gsub( rx, "\\2", txt ),
> >         description = gsub( rx, "\\3", txt ),
> >         stringsAsFactors = FALSE
> >         )
> >     out$group <- sub( "...", ".*", out$group, fixed = TRUE )
> >     out
> > }
> > 
> > I'll clean this up and write a man page if there is 
> interest in adding 
> > this to R, but this might be more appropriate in a package, 
> for example: 
> > http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rsitesearch/
> > 
> > Romain
> > 
> > Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > > 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
> > >>     
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Romain Francois
> > Independent R Consultant
> > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30
> > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
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