From: Liaw, Andy
>
> From: Liaw, Andy
> >
> > Can someone in R Core please take a look at the attached patches to
> > RSiteSearch() and its help page? I guess Jon is planning
> some changes
> > on his site.
>
> Apparently the attachments were stripped off the first time.
> Here's a second try.
>
> I've already set "format" to "plain text" in Outlook, even in
> that first post. If this still doesn't work, can some one
> explain to me what I have to do in Outlook to get the
> attachment through?
OK, as suggested by Bill Dunlap and Spencer Graves, I've renamed .diff
to .diff.txt. Hopefully the third time is charm...
Apologies for the wasted bandwidth.
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--- RSiteSearch.Rd 2009-04-18 03:28:08.000000000 -0400
+++ /home/liawand/RSiteSearch.Rd 2009-05-07 09:54:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -6,17 +6,15 @@
\name{RSiteSearch}
\alias{RSiteSearch}
\title{
- Search for Key Words or Phrases in the R-help Mailing List Archives
- or Documentation
+ Search for Key Words or Phrases in the function help pages
}
\description{
- Search for key words or phrases in the R-help mailing list
- archives, or \R manuals and help pages, using the search engine at
- \url{http://search.r-project.org} and view them in a web browser.
+ Search for key words or phrases in the function help pages, using the
+ search engine at \url{http://search.r-project.org} and view them in a
+ web browser.
}
\usage{
RSiteSearch(string,
- restrict = c("Rhelp02a", "functions", "docs"),
format = c("normal", "short"),
sortby = c("score", "date:late", "date:early",
"subject", "subject:descending",
@@ -27,14 +25,6 @@
\arguments{
\item{string}{word(s) or phrase to search. If the words are to be
searched as one entity, enclose all words in braces (see example).}
- \item{restrict}{a character vector, typically of length larger than one:
- What areas to search in:
- \code{Rhelp02a} for R-help mailing list archive since 2002,
- \code{Rhelp01} for mailing list archive before 2002,
- \code{docs} for R manuals,
- \code{functions} for help pages.
- \code{R-devel} for R-devel mailing list.
- Use \code{c()} to specify more than one.}
\item{format}{\code{normal} or \code{short} (no excerpts); can be
abbreviated.}
\item{sortby}{character string (can be abbreviated) indicating how to
@@ -60,6 +50,11 @@
Unique partial matches will work for all arguments. Each new
browser window will stay open unless you close it.
+
+ Mailing lists may be searched at several other sites, including
+ \url{http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/}, and
+ \url{http://markmail.org/search/list:r-project}. See
+ \url{http://search.r-project.org} for a full list.
}
\author{Andy Liaw and Jonathan Baron}
\seealso{
@@ -70,15 +65,8 @@
\examples{\donttest{ # need Internet connection
RSiteSearch("{logistic regression}") # matches exact phrase
Sys.sleep(5) # allow browser to open, take a quick look
-RSiteSearch("Baron Liaw", restrict = "Rhelp02a")
-## Search in R-devel archive and documents (and store the query-string):
-Sys.sleep(5)
-fullquery <- RSiteSearch("S4", restrict = c("R-dev", "docs"))
+fullquery <- RSiteSearch("S4", sortby = "date:late")
fullquery # a string of ~ 116 characters
-## the latest purported bug reports, responses ...
-%% FIXME: "/bug/ and other reg.exp.s seem to fail
-Sys.sleep(5)
-RSiteSearch("bug", restrict = "R-devel", sortby = "date:late")
}}
\keyword{utilities}
\keyword{documentation}
--- RSiteSearch.R 2009-04-18 03:28:06.000000000 -0400
+++ /home/liawand/RSiteSearch.R 2009-05-07 09:53:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
# A copy of the GNU General Public License is available at
# http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
-RSiteSearch <- function(string, restrict = c("Rhelp02a", "functions", "docs"),
- format = c("normal", "short"),
+RSiteSearch <- function(string, formatt = c("normal", "short"),
sortby = c("score", "date:late", "date:early",
"subject", "subject:descending",
"from", "from:descending", "size", "size:descending"),
@@ -27,10 +26,6 @@
mpp <- paste0("max=", matchesPerPage)
format <- paste0("result=", match.arg(format))
- restrictVALS <- c("Rhelp02a", "Rhelp01", "functions", "docs", "R-devel")
- restr <- match.arg(restrict, choices = restrictVALS, several.ok = TRUE)
- restr <- paste(paste0("idxname=", restr), collapse = "&")
-
sortby <- match.arg(sortby)
sortby <- paste0("sort=",
switch(sortby,
@@ -45,7 +40,7 @@
## we know this is a http:// URL, so encoding should be safe.
## it seems that firefox on Mac OS needs it for {...}
## OTOH, Namazu does not decode in, say, sort=date:late.
- qstring <- paste(URLencode(string), mpp, format, sortby, restr, sep = "&")
+ qstring <- paste(URLencode(string), mpp, format, sortby, sep = "&")
browseURL(qstring)
cat(gettext("A search query has been submitted to"),
"http://search.r-project.org\n";)
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