[R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

[Stephen Tucker]

There appears to be another site (linked from Wikipedia) that lists some of
the sites that it searches:

http://www.dangoldstein.com/search_r.html


--- Steven McKinney <smckinney at bccrc.ca> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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> 
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> 
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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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> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew C Keller
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
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