Hello Kevin,
That's a good idea to use the functionnality of firefox to search for help in R.
I wonder if that is possible to perform the search in the searchplugins (like google), I tried to but there is always the characters %20= that messed up with the one I was actually looking at.
Maybe something I don't see well, I created the following file in my C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins directory (just copying the google one)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ # Mozilla/R plug-in by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<search name="R"
description="R search engine"
method="GET"
action="file:///C:/Program%20Files/R/rw2000/doc/html/search/SearchObject.html"
<input name=" " user>
<interpret browserResultType="result" charset = "UTF-8"
resultListStart="<!--a-->" resultListEnd="<!--z-->" resultItemStart="<!--m-->" resultItemEnd="<!--n-->"
</search> _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Any idea ? Sorry for my english.
Romain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
If you've 'rediscovered the web' with Firefox (http://getfirefox.com), you might find this tip handy. Suppose you want to search the (local) R documentation for information about the lme function. Wouldn't it be nice to just type into the browser address bar: r lme and have the search performed? Here's how (on Windows):
Click on this link: file:///C:/Progra~1/rw2000/doc/html/search/SearchObject.html?%s
Bookmark the page and name the bookmark something like: R 2.0.0 doc search
Edit the properties of the bookmark (by right-clicking on the bookmark) and in the keywords field enter: r
Click OK.
That's all there is to it except for a couple of notes:
1. The first time the local search is performed (during a browser session), the java search applet has to be loaded. This takes several seconds.
2. If you use a different operating system, a different version of R, or install R in a different location, change the bookmark path to the "SearchObject" file as appropriate.
3. By default this only searches Help page titles. You may prefer a more comprehensive search that includes Keywords and Object names. Edit the SearchObject.html file and change 'false' to 'true' in the following line: line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchstring,true,true,true);
Here are my R and S-Plus bookmarks. I'll just give the link, my bookmark name, and my bookmark keyword.
http://www.google.com/u/newcastlemaths?q=%s R mail archive search rh
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.biostat.wustl.edu+[S]+%s S-news archive search sn
file:///C:/Progra~1/rw2000/doc/html/search/SearchObject.html?%s R 2.0.0 doc search r
Happy searching!
Kevin Wright
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