[R] Find in R and R books

[Mike Marchywka]

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> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:28:57 -0800
> From: spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com
> To: gwo at well.ox.ac.uk
> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Find in R and R books
>
> Other people like R Site Search
> (http://search.r-project.org/nmz.html), which is available via the
> standard R function "RSiteSearch".
>
>
> For me, the fastest literature search on virtually anything
> statistical is the "findFn" function in the "sos" package.
> (Disclaimer: I'm the lead author of that package, so I may be biased.)
> "findFn" sorts search results to put the package with the most matches
> first. The print method opens a table of the results in a web browser

Again, I have in past taken docs for various things like R, rendered
html to text and used things like grep and built my own indicies.
However, your facility does seem in that line of thought.

Personally I haven't had a problem with google scholar or
probably even citeseer would return good hits, R is not
a common english word so I think google can make use of it.




> with hot links to the individual matches. "sos" comes with a vignette,
> which includes an example of the "writeFindFn2xls" function. This
> writes a "findFn" object to an Excel file with two sheets: The second
> is all the matches found. The first is a summary of the packages found
> with extra information not available via RSiteSearch.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
> Spencer
>
>
> On 11/22/2010 3:19 AM, Georg Otto wrote:
> > Alaios writes:
> >
> >
> >> Also when I try to search in google using for example the word R inside the search lemma I get very few results as the R confuses the search engine. When I was looking something in matlab ofcourse it was easier to get results as the search engine performs better.
> >> What are your tricks when you want to find some function that provides some functionality?
> > To search R-specific sites the best place to go is this one:
> >
> > http://www.rseek.org/
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Georg
> >
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