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

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Sarah:  You were correct:  I failed to read the question with 
sufficient care.  Thanks for your original reply and for the 
correction.  Spencer


On 4/5/2012 10:11 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> 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
>>>>