[R] How to google for R stuff?

[Richard.Cotton at hsl.gov.uk]

> One thing I find most frustrating about R is how difficult it is to use
> Google (or any other search tool) to look for answers to my R-related
> questions.  With languages with even slightly more distinctive names 
like
> Perl, Java, Python, Matlab, OCaml, etc., usually including the name of 
the
> language in the query is enough to ensure that the top hits are 
relevant.
>  But this trick does not work for R, because the letter R appears by 
itself
> in so many pages, that the chaff overwhelms the wheat, so to speak.

There are loads of ways of finding information.

Use the function RSiteSearch, or
The R mail archive              
http://www.googlesyndicatedsearch.com/u/newcastlemaths
RSeek                           http://www.rseek.org/
R Search                        http://www.dangoldstein.com/search_r.html  

The R Graph Gallery             http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
R Help Wiki                     http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php
R manuals                       http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
FAQs                            http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html
Task Views                      http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/
News                            
http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/index.html
Books                           
http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html
Cranberries                     http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/

R-Forge (http://r-forge.r-project.org/) and Bioconductor (
http://www.bioconductor.org/GettingStarted) also have their own search 
tools.

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL



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