[R] How to search for R related topics in search engines?

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:

> Dear R folks,
>
>
> I am having problems getting good results when searching for R related
> topics, that means I have not found out yet what keywords I should use
> to get only relevant results. Most of the time I get also MATLAB  
> related
> things and nothing related at all. The nature of this is of course the
> name of R consisting just of one letter.
>
> What keywords do you use? Or do you just go to certain sites and do  
> not
> use any search engine at all?
>
> Until now I am always adding the keywords »r statistical« to my  
> search,
> but it is not optimal.

with Google:  either "r-project" or "language:r"

RSiteSearch("terms")

Use sos::findFn

rseek has been mentioned

Gmane's or Markmail's webarchives

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT