[R] extracting entire mail archive

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "MikeS" == Michael D Sohn <mdsohn at lbl.gov> writes:

    MikeS> I'd like to search the r-help mail archives.
    MikeS> However, it takes a long time to load the html
    MikeS> archive for my searches.  Is there a simple way to
    MikeS> download the entire
    MikeS> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/mail-archives/r-help/
    MikeS> archives in text format so I can execute simple grep
    MikeS> searches?

wget --mirror http://cran.r-project.org/doc/mail-archives/r-help

  {if your system hasn't got "wget" -- get it !}

But please don't everyone try the above. It's quite a huge
thing, and I don't think it will make Kurt, Fritz etc nor the TU
Wien IT-people very happy!

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