kwright@eskimo.com
2004-Nov-12 20:01 UTC
[Rd] Requested consideration: true, true, true in SearchObject.html
I've just posted an email to R-help with instructions on creating a Firefox keyword search of the R documentation: https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-November/059272.html The method involves bookmarking the RHOME/doc/html/search/SearchObject.html file. Currently this page is set up to only search help page titles: line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchstring,true,false,false); Note that by default the SearchEngine.html page has the Titles, Keywords and Objects boxes all checked. It would be useful for the keyword search to have SearchObject.html include Title and Object name searches by default: line = line + document.SearchEngine.search (searchstring,true,true,true); When I used 'grep -r SearchObject *' from RHOME, the only hits were to doc/html/search/Makefile.in share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm The latter appears to create hyperlinks in the "See Also" section of help pages. A better possibility might be to create a new file (ex: SearchAll.html) and include the requested change there. Thanks for considering this request. Sincerly, Kevin Wright
kwright@eskimo.com
2004-Nov-13 02:35 UTC
[Rd] Re: Requested consideration: true, true, true in SearchObject.html
Hold off on this request. I don't have the details quite right. The keyword search works, but what exactly it returns is not clear to me. It's not the same as searching from the SearchEngine.html page. If anybody figures this out before me, great. Otherwise I continue to flounder around by trial and error through the javascript to figure this out... Kevin Wright
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