Hi Spencer,
Thanks for the pointers.
> > I just wanted to share with you that we made a website over the weekend that allows "instant search" of the R documentation on CRAN, see: www.Rdocumentation.org. It's a first version, so any feedback/comments/criticism most welcome.
> 
> 
>        Interesting.  Are you aware of the following:
>              * help.start()>>> Of course, but I think checking R documentation online instead of with the built-in R help function could provide some extra benefits. First, you are capable of searching through the latest version of all R packages, even those that are not installed on your device. This makes it not only a help tool, but also a tool for discovery (the fact that you can see search results while typing in the search box,  increases the "discovery element" further). Second, I added the discussion system ‘Disqus’. For every function and package, Disqus allows users to ask questions, add extra examples to the documentation, etc.  This could become an added value (conditionally on the fact that people use of it of course :-)>              * The R Wiki (the fourth item under "Documentation" on the > left at "r-project.org").  Might you want to consider merging your 
> "rdocumentation.org" with this?
>>> That would be an interesting option, but I guess that's not up to me to decide ;-).
>                    - NOTE:  The R Wiki unfortunately has not gotten the 
> attention and development I believe it deserves.  I'm not sure why this 
> is.  The standard Wikipedia gets many contributors.  One difference I 
> noticed is that to edit this, one needs to login. That's not true for 
> Wikimedia projects.  Beyond that, with stardard Mediawiki markup 
> language can intimidate some people.  Fortunately, difficulties in using 
> the Mediawiki softaware will soon be reduced. One of the primary 
> priorities of the software development team at the Wikimedia Foundation 
> is modifying the Mediawiki software to include a beta version of a 
> visual (WYSIWYG) editor.  I saw a demo of a beta version of this a month 
> ago.  It's already available for limited use, but I don't think it's 
> quite ready yet.  I think it might be wise to check for it later this year.
> 
> 
>              * The "sos" package with its vignette for searching CRAN 
> packages and getting the result sorted to place first the package with 
> the most matches.>>> I was unaware of the sos package, looks very nice, thank you for sharing!
>        Hope this helps.
>        Spencer
> 
> > Best regards,
> >
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