[R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

[Sasha Goodman]

Thanks for emailing. I've added volunteers on RSeek on a trial basis.
There are several concerns, though:

One big issue is quality. Allowing volunteers means that someone might
need to police the volunteers, as they can put in advertisements for
books, links to sites that try to hack your computer, and links to
commercial software. Importantly, there seems to be no built in
policing mechanism yet in the Google coop architecture, nor any means
of sharing the maintenance.

Another issue is that I have to periodically visit the Google coop
webpage and manually check if people have volunteered. Google has not
added automatic acceptance.

As for open sourcing the php and javascript that makes up R seek, I'm
open to doing that during spring break if there is enough interest.

--Sasha



On 2/23/07, Matthew Keller <mckellercran at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> You might check out a recent discussion on the R forums (below). One
> possible suggestion about Rseek: can you allow others to contribute to
> it as well (ie, make Rseek open source just like R is?). Also, is
> Rseek going to be linked from the main R page anytime soon? Thanks for
> your efforts,
>
> Matt
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sérgio Nunes <snunes at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 23, 2007 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R
> To: Matthew Keller <mckellercran at gmail.com>
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
>
> I just seen the link you suggested - RSeek - and it uses exactly the
> same service from Google. The only difference is that it is not open
> to new contributions. Maybe Sasha could open it to volunteers.
>
> Also it seems to be much more complete than my initial attempt (as expected :).
> I think that RSeek "deserves" a link in R's homepage.
>
> Sérgio Nunes
>
> On 2/23/07, Sérgio Nunes <snunes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just created this search engine for testing today.
> > I think that if you volunteer as a contributor (see link on the left
> > side) you can then see and add to the list of sites.
> >
> > I've also noticed that I can add sites by importing a XML file.
> > Is there any list of sites that could be easily converted to XML?
> >
> > Sérgio Nunes
> >
> > On 2/23/07, Matthew Keller <mckellercran at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Sergio,
> > >
> > > There was a discussion on this board recently about the difficulty of
> > > searching for "R" related material on the web. I think the custom
> > > google search engine is a good idea. It would be helpful if we could
> > > have access to the full list of websites it is indexing so that we
> > > could make suggestions about other sites that are missing. As it is,
> > > it only tells us that there are 35 websites, and shows us the first
> > > several.
> > >
> > > Also, you might check out Sasha Goodman's Rseek: http://www.rseek.org/
> > >
> > > Have you tried to compare the success of yours with Rseek?
> > >
> > > All the Best,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > On 2/23/07, Sérgio Nunes <snunes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Since "R" is a (very) generic name, I've been having some trouble
> > > > searching the web for this topic. Due to this, I've just created a
> > > > Google Custom Search Engine that includes several of the most relevant
> > > > sites that have information on R.
> > > >
> > > > See it in action at:
> > > >
> > > > http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=018133866098353049407%3Aozv9awtetwy
> > > >
> > > > This is really a preliminary test. Feel free to add yourself to the
> > > > project and contribute with suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > Sérgio Nunes
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matthew C Keller
> > > Postdoctoral Fellow
> > > Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Matthew C Keller
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
>