Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-24 Thread Stephen Tucker
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[R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Sérgio Nunes
Hi, Since R is a (very) generic name, I've been having some trouble searching the web for this topic. Due to this, I've just created a Google Custom Search Engine that includes several of the most relevant sites that have information on R. See it in action at:

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Keller
Hi Sergio, There was a discussion on this board recently about the difficulty of searching for R related material on the web. I think the custom google search engine is a good idea. It would be helpful if we could have access to the full list of websites it is indexing so that we could make

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Sérgio Nunes
Hi, I've just created this search engine for testing today. I think that if you volunteer as a contributor (see link on the left side) you can then see and add to the list of sites. I've also noticed that I can add sites by importing a XML file. Is there any list of sites that could be easily

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Sérgio Nunes
I just seen the link you suggested - RSeek - and it uses exactly the same service from Google. The only difference is that it is not open to new contributions. Maybe Sasha could open it to volunteers. Also it seems to be much more complete than my initial attempt (as expected :). I think that

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread michael watson \(IAH-C\)
@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R Hi Sergio, There was a discussion on this board recently about the difficulty of searching for R related material on the web. I think the custom google search engine is a good idea. It would be helpful if we could have access

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Sasha Goodman
-- From: Sérgio Nunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 23, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R To: Matthew Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch I just seen the link you suggested - RSeek - and it uses exactly the same service from Google. The only

Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R

2007-02-23 Thread Steven McKinney
Nunes Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Google Custom Search Engine for R Hi Sergio, There was a discussion on this board recently about the difficulty of searching for R related material on the web. I think the custom google search engine is a good idea. It would be helpful if we

Re: [R] Google, hard disc drives and R

2007-02-19 Thread Dieter Menne
Tim Churches tchur at optushome.com.au writes: A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner): http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf ... For all of you

Re: [R] Google, hard disc drives and R

2007-02-19 Thread Ben Bolker
Tim Churches tchur at optushome.com.au writes: A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner): http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Perhaps some of the

Re: [R] Google, hard disc drives and R

2007-02-19 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Ben Bolker wrote: Tim Churches tchur at optushome.com.au writes: A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner):

[R] Google, hard disc drives and R

2007-02-18 Thread Tim Churches
A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner): http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Perhaps some of the eminences grises of the R Foundation could prevail upon

[R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

2006-12-27 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
I want to be able to search my saved R script files on my hard drive. Thankfully the files are all saved with the .R filename extension which means that filetype:R in the Google Desktop Search (GDS) box limits the search to those files. Unfortunately if I put any other term in the search box (for

Re: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

2006-12-27 Thread bogdan romocea
, December 27, 2006 4:16 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files I want to be able to search my saved R script files on my hard drive. Thankfully the files are all saved with the .R filename extension which means that filetype:R in the Google

Re: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

2006-12-27 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Go to the gooogle desktop preferences page and install Larry's Any Text File Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea (Index any file extension specified as plaintext) then tell it to search the .R and other extensions as plaintext. Google will then index all indicated files on your harddisk and will find

Re: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

2006-12-27 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
Wonderful. I did it and it works perfectly. Thanks a lot. Richard M. Heiberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to the gooogle desktop preferences page and install Larry's Any Text File Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea (Index any file extension specified as plaintext)

Re: [R] Google Desktop Search and R script files

2006-12-27 Thread Farrel Buchinsky
Thank you for your advice. I have read quite a bit about Copernic Desktop Search. Nevertheless, I chose not to download yet another indexing program. I am very happy with Google Desktop Search and particularly how well it integrates with many other features. Therefore, when I saw the reply to

[R] Google for scientists: search engine

2004-11-30 Thread Hanke, Alex
A new way to search for documentation on your favourite science topic. http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com/ Alex Hanke Department of Fisheries and Oceans St. Andrews Biological Station 531 Brandy Cove Road St. Andrews, NB Canada E5B 2L9 [[alternative HTML version

Re: [R] google

2003-01-27 Thread Murray Jorgensen
That's good. But it will probably not take you to other pages where people mention that they are using R for something, which is a bit of a pity. Rafael A. Irizarry wrote: fyi, I typed R in google and hit the I'm feeling lucky botton... it took me to http://www.r-project.org -rafael ps -

[R] google

2003-01-26 Thread Rafael A. Irizarry
fyi, I typed R in google and hit the I'm feeling lucky botton... it took me to http://www.r-project.org -rafael ps - toysrus.com is second. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help