[R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

[bogdan romocea]

If you're on Windows switch to
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/index.html ,
last time I looked it was quite a lot better than Google Desktop Search.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Farrel
> Buchinsky
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:16 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files
>
> I want to be able to search my saved R script files on my hard drive.
> Thankfully the files are all saved with the .R filename
> extension which
> means that "filetype:R" in the Google Desktop Search (GDS)
> box limits the
> search to those files. Unfortunately if I put any other term
> in the search
> box (for example, "hist" to find scripts where I have created
> a histogram)
> then GDS does not find it. It only seems to index based on
> the filename and
> not on the contents of the file. So for instance, if I had a
> file called
> HistAnalysis.R then the search "filetype:R hist" would find it.
>
> Google web based search is working correctly (As somebody pointed out
> previously). I am only having the problem with GDS. Has
> anyone succeeded
> with what I am attempting to do.
>
> --
> Farrel Buchinsky
>
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