Martin Maechler
1998-Jan-21 08:14 UTC
R (off-topic): How to make mail-archives searchable?
As you (hopefully) know, the mail archives of R-devel, R-help and R-announce have been available via FTP from here, and now also from CRAN. I had spent a little effort to enhance these monthly plain unix-mail folders to be 'Emacs outlined' (i.e., emacs is put in outline-mode when you open one of these). and you all are probably efficient users of grep, etc. However, for average R users, a better user interface is desired: Something like statlib's search engine (on S-news) IN ADDITION to these simple plain files, or one of the many other CGI / HTML based archive searchers should be added. On the other hand, we have not yet desired if CRAN servers really should be (mis)usable via CGI running on them; then, of course, the alternative are java `beans'. Since I've never installed any of these, I'd like to get some advice of more experienced people like you. Since this is a slightly off-topic subject, you could reply only to me and I'd summarize to R-devel... -- Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> <>< http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/~maechler/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._