R devel - Mar 2006 - Wishlist - Give R a name that shows up in search engines ...

From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
> 
> On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time
ago
> | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for 
> | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me
enough.
> | YMMV.
> 
> Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function 
> which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant 
> to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like 
> that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by 
> R questions ...
My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon made
available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org.  I believe
that's
not going to be very productive (at least for now).  I don't think
there's a
whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places.

Andy
 
> Dirk
> 
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Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to
buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the
user base was so large.  R has something better: CRAN.  It was really smart
to make a central repository where useRs can share code.  No other language
that I can think of really has an equivalent.  All I have to do it search
CRAN and I can find 99% of what out there (I'm making a guess on the actual
number here).

Besides, I don't need to write bubble sort routines anymore because almost
everything I need is already built into R.




On 3/7/06, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw@merck.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
> >
> > On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > | I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some
time ago
> > | (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for
> > | example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives
me enough.
> > | YMMV.
> >
> > Nobody seems to have mentioned the RSiteSearch() function
> > which automagically restrict the search to domains relevant
> > to the contect of "our" use of the letter R. I quite like
> > that as I tend to have an R prompt open when I am puzzled by
> > R questions ...
>
> My guess is that people were hoping to find things outside of what Jon
> made
> available or what's on or linked from www.r-project.org.  I believe
that's
> not going to be very productive (at least for now).  I don't think
there's
> a
> whole lot of things related to R that isn't found in those two places.
>
> Andy
>
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish
something.
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> >
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On 7 March 2006 at 10:55, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
| I have given up on "R" with any topic on Google quite some time ago
| (because bits from fragmented postscript/pdf files show up, for
| example) - but using "r-devel" with topic normally gives me enough.
| YMMV.

I think Google's filetype searching can be very useful. This was 
discussed on R-help last May. Someone also pointed out that searching in 
this way would bring up lots of Rebol code, but that's easily weeded out:

filetype:R -rebol apply

and of the 10 hits (of 12,300) on the first page of results, only 1 
points to an R project website.

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