[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
Spencer Graves
spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
Thu Sep 8 15:23:57 CEST 2016
On 9/8/2016 3:30 AM, Joris Meys wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I have neither the resources nor the skills to take over, but whatever
> happens I want to thank you for all the work. Too often people forget
> that all these nice tools keep working due to the devotion of people
> like you.
>
> So thank you!
>
I concur. People all over the world live better today, because R
made it easier for others to solve problems -- and Jon made a
substantive contribution to that. Spencer
> Cheers
> Joris
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2016 04:08, "Jonathan Baron" <baron at psych.upenn.edu
> <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>> wrote:
>
> Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.
>
> I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
> drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
> to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
> some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
> indexing to hang completely.
>
> I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
> work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
> tomorrow, if it works overnight.)
>
> Jon
>
> On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>
> Spencer,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my
> site and
> trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more
> than
> one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also
> generate
> errors.
>
> My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
> files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and
> Fedora
> maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:
>
> m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
> m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R
> <http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R>")
> update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
> update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load","
> --no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--html
> "),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
> m3 <- new.packages()
> install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-loa
> d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--
> html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())
>
> Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
> packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you
> don't
> use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.
>
> Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora
> maintainers
> of R have set some defaults that are helpful.
>
> Jon
>
> On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>
> Hello, All:
>
>
> Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
> RSiteSearch database.
>
>
> This breaks three things: (1) The R Site Search web
> service that Baron has maintained. (2) The RSiteSearch
> function in the utils package. (3) The sos package, for
> which I'm the maintainer and lead author.
>
>
> Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>
>
> For me, the "findFn" capability with
> "writeFindFn2xls" is the fastest literature search for
> anything statistical. However, I don't have the resources
> to take over the management of Baron's R Site Search database.
>
>
> He's provided a great service for the R community
> for many years. I hope we can find a way to keep the
> system maintained. Failing that, I could use help in
> adapting the sos package to another database.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Spencer Graves
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org
> <http://rdocumentation.org>, ...?
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
> From: Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
> <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>
> To: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
> <mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>>
> CC: Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
> <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>, chris.is.fun at gmail.com
> <mailto:chris.is.fun at gmail.com>, info at datacamp.com
> <mailto:info at datacamp.com> <info at datacamp.com
> <mailto:info at datacamp.com>>, Sundar Dorai-Raj
> <sdorairaj at gmail.com <mailto:sdorairaj at gmail.com>>,
> webmaster at www.r-project-org
>
>
>
> R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip,
> mknmz, failed
> to complete. It has been producing more and more errors
> and warnings,
> since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>
> I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things
> to do aside
> from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't
> know (Perl),
> or set up an alternative search engine.
>
> Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>
> I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org
> <http://www.r-project.org> webmaster, so I'm
> taking a stab. There are several links to this site in
> those pages.
>
> Jon
> --
> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
> Pennsylvania
> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
> <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
> Pennsylvania
> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
> <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
> <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
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