From: Jonathan Baron
>
> On 05/07/09 13:48, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > From: Duncan Murdoch
> > > I'll incorporate the changes if you like.
>
> Yes. Please do. I understand that it won't take effect for a while.
> When it does, I'll change my site.
>
> What do you think
> > > of the idea
> > > of adding a gmane (or other archive) search to your results
> > > page? Then
> > > if someone doesn't like what the man pages show, you can
> send them
> > > somewhere else, rather than leaving them to find out the
> > > other resources
> > > themselves.
> > >
> > > gmane has sample code for this on their search page
> > > search.gmane.org, so
> > > it looks reasonably easy. I'd suggest following their
> last example,
> > > with a drop-down box to select mailing lists, with
> > > comp.lang.r.* as an
> > > option for "all lists".
> > >
> > > Duncan Murdoch
>
> Good idea. I will do this. But there are also two other good search
> engines. Maybe I'll add all three search alternatives. But then,
> according to Sheena Iyengar, people won't choose any! Hmm.
>
> > Actually, I was thinking about a possible RHelpSearch() in
> addition, if
> > Jon is no longer going to include the R-help archive in the
> search. I
> > used the current RSiteSearch() a lot more for searching
> R-help archive
> > than functions in packages. Ideas? comments?
>
> This is OK with me, but I don't want to do it. I guess it would
> search gmane. MarkMail is also pretty good, as is
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ All these are much better than
> Namazu for searching the R-help list.
Sorry I didn't make it clear: I meant something like the gmaneSearcg()
that Romain posted, not hitting your site.
Best,
Andy
> Jon
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