Dear wizaRds, Kevin,
I came up with a solution to perform a r doc search in the Firefox search bar, you'll have to create a file called R.src in the search plugins directory : (for me it is : C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins) and put a png image of the R logo in the same directory (the logo has to be named R.png) : same prefix as the .src file.
My R.src file looks like that:
# 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="SEARCHTERM" user>
<interpret browserResultType="result" charset = "UTF-8"
resultListStart="<!--a-->" resultListEnd="<!--z-->" resultItemStart="<!--m-->" resultItemEnd="<!--n-->"
</search> #end of file
With only that the problem is that Firefox is calling the page
file:///C:/Program%20Files/R/rw2000/doc/html/search/SearchObject.html?_SEARCHTERM=_glm
if I want entries about glm. So the response is that
"No matches for " SEARCHTERM=glm " have been found
I looked at several searchplugins but I think we can't get rid of the "SEARCHTERM=".
Then, I changed the searchObject.html file to remove that part of the searchstring, just after the commentary //call the applet code!, I just add that :
if(searchstring.length > 10 & searchstring.substring(0,10) == 'SEARCHTERM') { searchstring = searchstring.substring(11,searchstring.length) ;
}
That works fine for me except that I don't get as much entries as the searchPluging.html gives : any ideas ?
Hope that will be helpfull for somebody else.
Romain.
version_ platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 0.0 year 2004 month 10 day 04 language R
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Nice idea. A couple of comments.
1. I personally always install R in c:/R/ instead of c:/Program Files/ There are frequently comments on R-help that it is better to avoid paths with spaces. Still, you should be able to use /Progra~1/ instead of /Program Files/
2. The search engine plugin that you have created generates a URL like this: .../SearchObject.html?q=nlme
What is needed is a URL like .../SearchObject.html?%s where the %s is the string from the text box.
I speculate it might be possible to change the SearchObject.html file to grab the "q=nlme" and strip off the "q=" but I have no idea if this is possible.
I'm not comfortable with HTML/Java/Javascript to get this working properly.
3. My comment about editing the SearchObject.html file to change the "false" to "true" doesn't seem to cause the search to match the results obtained using the traditional way of opening the search page and typing in the text. I'm not sure why. Would love it if someone figured this out.
Seems like all of this would be fairly easy for a good web programmer.
Kevin
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.
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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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