On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Here's a function for searching the Rwiki from R: > > rwiki.search <- function(string){ > > RwikiURL="http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl" > RwikiSearchURL=paste(RwikiURL(),"?search=",string,sep='') > browseURL(RwikiSearchURL) > > return(invisible(0)) > } >
Hmm, that's nice. > > Then you can do rwiki.search("gabor") and the results pop up in your > browser. > > Perhaps we need some more documentation-getting functions in R, such as > this, something to search the mailing list archives, and maybe a > readPostingGuide() function... > > Or is this spoonfeeding too much, and people should be able to go to a > web page and stick something in the search box? Some people need spoonfeeding, and sometimes its nice to be able to do things more than one way. rwiki.search('SearchFunctions') help.search.archive<-function(string){ RURL="http://www.google.com/u/newcastlemaths" RSearchURL=paste(RURL,"?q=",string,sep='') browseURL(RSearchURL) return(invisible(0)) } help.search.archive('wiki') Dave -- Dave Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)684-7900w [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)642-0662h http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/ ______________________________________________ [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