[R-pkg-devel] search strategies for R mailing lists

[David Winsemius]

On 9/9/22 13:09, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>
>   Related: Do people have good strategies for searching R mailing 
> lists? All the searchable aggregators I know about (gmane, nabble) are 
> defunct by now.  Googling with site:stat.ethz.ch isn't sufficiently 
> precise.  (I'd like to be able to do "full-text search for <xxxx> on 
> r-package-devel".)

For many years, ~15, I've used MarkMail. It sadly does not index 
R-pkg-devel, but it does index r-help and r-devel and several other 
important resources.

https://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project

Here's todays count.

org.r-project.r-help 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-help> 	386,759
org.r-project.r-devel 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-devel> 	60,043
org.r-project.r-sig-geo 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-geo> 	28,146
org.r-project.r-sig-mixed-models 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-mixed-models> 
19,334
org.r-project.r-sig-finance 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-finance> 	14,810
org.r-project.r-sig-mac 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-mac> 	14,026
org.r-project.r-sig-ecology 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-ecology> 	6,281
org.r-project.r-sig-phylo 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-phylo> 	5,802
org.r-project.r-sig-debian 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-debian> 	3,414
org.r-project.r-sig-db 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-db> 	1,514

HTH

David




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