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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
>>>>>     on Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:25:08 -0500 writes:

    > On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:14 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

    >> 
    >> 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?


    > David,

    > If you go to:

    > http://www.r-project.org

    > and look at the left hand navigation frame, there is a "Search" link there, which brings up, in the right hand frame, a list of search sites (http://www.r-project.org/search.html), which still includes Robert's site at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/.

    > The archives there seem to stop at 2012 and the Google search box there seems to be non-functional from a quick check.

    > I have not used his site in years and will use rseek.org these days.

    > It seems to me that I recall discussion in the past about the status of Robert's site, but cannot seem to locate anything at the moment. I am not sure who maintains the R web site these days, but presumably that link should be removed if the search engine is no longer actively maintained.

    > Regards,
    > Marc Schwartz

Thank you, Marc (and the other posters).
R core has always been responsible for that, it is also an svn
repos, mirrored daily to the web server.
I have commented Robert King's mirror (and also added a bit
about Nabble).
You should be able to see the result within 24 hours.

Martin