[R] Best way to search r- functions and mailing list?

[Sarah Goslee]

sos is a great way to search help pages, agreed. But the question is
about functions AND mailing list archives, which requires an online
solution. (See subject line.)

Sarah

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Spencer Graves
<spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
> The "sos" package is designed to search help pages only and sort the results
> by package.  It includes a vignette describing how to get the results as an
> Excel file giving an efficient summary of which packages contain help pages
> of interest including the latest date updated, etc.  I designed the package
> to be the quickest lit search for anything statistical, and I don't know of
> anything better.  I may want to look elsewhere later, but I always start a
> lit search there.  I suspect that others have not found it that useful or
> someone else would have mentioned it earlier on this thread ;-)  Spencer
>
>
> On 4/5/2012 9:40 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>>
>> I usually use http://www.rseek.org
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jonathan Greenberg<jgrn at illinois.edu>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> R-helpers:
>>>
>>> It looks like http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html has stopped
>>> spidering the mailing lists -- this used to be my go-to site for
>>> searching for R solutions.  Are there any good replacements for this?
>>> I want to be able to search both functions and mailing lists at the
>>> same time.  Cheers!
>>>
>>> --j

>



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Sarah Goslee
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