[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

[John Merrill]

That would work, although it would entail standing up a server to front the
elasticsearch module.  The strikes me a huge investment of time which
would, in addition, recreate the current key man risk.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Kevin Coombes <kevin.r.coombes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would it make sense to recreate the "searchable R help pages" by feeding
> them all into elasticsearch, which will automatically index them and also
> provides an extensive (HTTP+JSON-based) API to perform complex searches?
>
> On 9/8/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:
>>
>>> Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at all
>>> averse
>>> to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well be a
>>> good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a page
>>> and
>>> to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.
>>>
>>
>> The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
>> files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
>> the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
>> re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
>> every package, but the individual functions are not separated.
>>
>> But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
>> would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
>> this. But I would welcome it.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
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