Hi,
I didn't know your search engine. Thank you very much for providing this tool. As far as I am concerned, I think that something like that was missing: R is growing so fast that it becomes difficult for the poor human to know all available facilities. I know many people using SPlus that wont change to R because they would have difficulties to find equivalent functions. They dont know the poweR!
It would be very great to have a portal that allows a quick access to all the available documentation/stuff about R.
For the students here, I also prepared a support page allowing to search across R functions (R Help Center: http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/).
I created a FileMaker database containing more than 11000 functions (name, description, library and code). Doing research on the code and having the possibility to browse it is very usefull. Nervertheless, I dont think I will have time to update it on a regular basis.
Thus, my suggestion is to add function's code to your search engine. If I understand well what you use, for that, you will have to generate a flat file for each function. If you are interestd, I have pieces of code that could do the stuff.
Eric
At 00:58 2/12/2003, Jonathan Baron wrote:
My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much faster than the old one. It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND, etc.). Suggestions are welcome. -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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