[R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

[Steven McKinney]

Whereas "R" is very generic,
"CRAN" is much less so.

I've had very good luck adding CRAN
to my search terms, e.g. try to Google

cran 3d scatterplot

This produces all R-related hits on
the first Google page.


Hope this helps


Steven McKinney

Statistician
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British Columbia Cancer Research Centre

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Matthew Keller
Sent: Fri 2/23/2007 7:51 AM
To: Sérgio Nunes
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R
 
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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Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

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