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

[David Winsemius]

On 9/9/22 16:49, David Winsemius wrote:
> 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,


I was in error on that point. There are more packages indexed than show 
up on the default listing, you need to click the "More" button in the 
upper right corner of the list-of-lists.


What List?
1) 	org.r-project.r-help 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-help> 	386,759
2) 	org.r-project.r-devel 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-devel> 	60,043
3) 	org.r-project.r-sig-geo 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-geo> 	28,146
4) 	org.r-project.r-sig-mixed-models 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-mixed-models> 
19,334
5) 	org.r-project.r-sig-finance 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-finance> 	14,810
6) 	org.r-project.r-sig-mac 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-mac> 	14,026
7) 	org.r-project.r-sig-ecology 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-ecology> 	6,281
8) 	org.r-project.r-sig-phylo 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-phylo> 	5,802
9) 	org.r-project.r-sig-debian 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-debian> 	3,414
10) 	org.r-project.r-sig-db 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-db> 	1,514
11) 	org.r-project.r-sig-gui 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-gui> 	1,230
12) 	org.r-project.r-sig-teaching 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-teaching> 	867

13) 	org.r-project.r-packages 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-packages> 	851
14) 	org.r-project.r-sig-fedora 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-fedora> 	821
15) 	org.r-project.r-sig-jobs 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-jobs> 	409
16) 	org.r-project.r-sig-wiki 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-wiki> 	398
17) 	org.r-project.r-sig-epi 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-epi> 	363
18) 	org.r-project.r-sig-robust 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-robust> 	283
19) 	org.r-project.r-announce 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-announce> 	203
20) 	org.r-project.r-sig-gr 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-gr> 	170
21) 	org.r-project.r-sig-s 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-s> 	32
22) 	org.r-project.r-sig-networks 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-networks> 	27
23) 	org.r-project.r-sig-mediawiki 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-mediawiki> 	25
24) 	org.r-project.r-sig-qa 
<https://markmail.org/search/+list:org.r-project.r-sig-qa> 	25

I discovered this by searching on "doi packages" and seeing many 
citations to r-packages postings.


HTH

David


> 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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