[R] R mail list archive Google search function not work

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

> On 26/03/14 12:51, David Winsemius wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Luo Weijun wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Robert and R project team,
>>> I notice that the Google search function on the R mail list archives page has stopped working for quite a while, http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/.
>>> Is there any solution on this or this has been move to another webpage? I know Google advance search can be used but the query is more complicated. This simple function could help R users greatly. Thank you!
>>> Weijun
>>> 
>> Why not use MarkMail:
>> http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help
>> 
>> Or Gmane
>> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/search/list:org.r-project.r-help
>> 
> 
> Why not?  Well, for one thing the first link that the R web site points at is the tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ link.  Which is *still there* but terminates at 31 March 2012.
> 

I'm a bit confused about what is meant by "the R web site". Are you pointing out deficiencies in MarkMail or GMane?


> cheers,
> 
> Rolf

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA