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. Jon > Andy > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attach...{{dropped:18}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
