On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jonathan Baron wrote: > On 09/10/04 03:54, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > >There is another issue to be considered. Currently you need to have the > >relevant packages installed before help.search() bring it up. My work > >around this is to install all available packages just in case the > >function I need is nestled in some non-standard packages. I also update > >them rather frequently. > > I do this too, at my search site (where "frequently"=monthly) and > you can search functions only, and use Boolean search expressions > and phrases. > > But right now the entire set of packages takes about 885 meg (if > I'm reading du correctly), which is less than my very modest > collection of digital photos, and a tiny fraction of a 3-year-old > standard hard disk. In other words, it is no big deal to install > all the packages if you have your own computer.
I am seeing about 520Mb for all base + CRAN packages under 1.9.1, and it will be rather less under 2.0.0 as more parts are stored compressed. BioC is a lot larger. It is however, a BIG deal to install *all* the packages and am I currently 10 short since they depend on other software that I do not have a licence for or will not compile (and there are three others I cannot reinstall using current gcc). On AMD64 and Solaris there are several others, and something like 20 do not install on Windows. (I could use --install-fake as the CRAN checks do, but I have the almost complete set installed to test R changes, not test packages.) So I do see some merit in having a full-text search for R help available at some URL, as Jonathan has kindly provided. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
