R devel - Sep 2016 - Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.

I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
indexing to hang completely.

I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
tomorrow, if it works overnight.)

Jon

On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>Spencer,
>
>Thanks for the quick reply.
>
>I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site and
>trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than
>one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate
>errors.
>
>My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
>files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and Fedora
>maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:
>
>m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
>m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
>source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
>update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load","
>--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--html
>"),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
>m3 <- new.packages()
>install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-loa
>d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--
>html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())
>
>Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
>packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you don't
>use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.
>
>Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora maintainers
>of R have set some defaults that are helpful.
>
>Jon
>
>On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>Hello, All:
>>
>>
>>       Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
RSiteSearch database.
>>
>>
>>       This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web service that
>>Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils 
>>package.  (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and lead
>>author.
>>
>>
>>       Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>>
>>
>>       For me, the "findFn" capability with
"writeFindFn2xls" is the
>>fastest literature search for anything statistical.  However, I
don't
>>have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site
Search
>>database.
>>
>>
>>       He's provided a great service for the R community for many 
>>years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the system maintained. Failing 
>>that, I could use help in adapting the sos package to another database.
>>
>>
>>       Thanks,
>>       Spencer Graves
>>
>>
>>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>>Subject: 	Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
>>Date: 	Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>>From: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
>>To: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>>CC: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>, chris.is.fun at
gmail.com,
>>info at datacamp.com <info at datacamp.com>, Sundar Dorai-Raj 
>><sdorairaj at gmail.com>, webmaster at www.r-project-org
>>
>>
>>
>>R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip, mknmz, failed
>>to complete. It has been producing more and more errors and warnings,
>>since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>>
>>I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things to do aside
>>from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't know (Perl),
>>or set up an alternative search engine.
>>
>>Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>>
>>I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org webmaster, so I'm
>>taking a stab. There are several links to this site in those pages.
>>
>>Jon
>>-- 
>>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>
>
>-- 
>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)

OK.  It is sort of fixed and sort of works.

We'll keep it for now, but this is not going to work forever. When
namazu fails completely I will not have the time to install a new
search engine.

One option is to use google. For a site like this, I think they will
want some money, but I'm not sure, and I do not have the time to deal
with it.

We have over 10,000 packages now. I wonder if searching all help files
is really helpful anymore.

Jon

On 09/07/16 22:06, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.
>
>I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
>drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
>to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
>some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
>indexing to hang completely.
>
>I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
>work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
>tomorrow, if it works overnight.)
>
>Jon
>
>On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>>Spencer,
>>
>>Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>>I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site and
>>trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than
>>one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate
>>errors.
>>
>>My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
>>files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and Fedora
>>maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:
>>
>>m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
>>m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
>>source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load",
>"
>>--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--htm
>l
>>"),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
>>m3 <- new.packages()
>>install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-lo
>a
>>d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","-
>-
>>html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>
>>Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
>>packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you don't
>>use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.
>>
>>Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora maintainers
>>of R have set some defaults that are helpful.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>>Hello, All:
>>>
>>>
>>>       Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
RSiteSearch database.
>>>
>>>
>>>       This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web service
that
>>>Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch function in the utils 
>>>package.  (3) The sos package, for which I'm the maintainer and
lead
>>>author.
>>>
>>>
>>>       Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>>>
>>>
>>>       For me, the "findFn" capability with
"writeFindFn2xls" is the
>>>fastest literature search for anything statistical.  However, I
don't
>>>have the resources to take over the management of Baron's R Site
Search
>>>database.
>>>
>>>
>>>       He's provided a great service for the R community for
many
>>>years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the system maintained.
Failing
>>>that, I could use help in adapting the sos package to another
database.
>>>
>>>
>>>       Thanks,
>>>       Spencer Graves
>>>
>>>
>>>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>Subject: 	Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
>>>Date: 	Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>>>From: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
>>>To: 	Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>>>CC: 	Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>, chris.is.fun
at gmail.com,
>>>info at datacamp.com <info at datacamp.com>, Sundar Dorai-Raj 
>>><sdorairaj at gmail.com>, webmaster at www.r-project-org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip, mknmz, failed
>>>to complete. It has been producing more and more errors and
warnings,
>>>since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>>>
>>>I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things to do
aside
>>>from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't know
(Perl),
>>>or set up an alternative search engine.
>>>
>>>Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>>>
>>>I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org webmaster, so
I'm
>>>taking a stab. There are several links to this site in those pages.
>>>
>>>Jon
>>>-- 
>>>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>>>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
>-- 
>Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)

I have mixed feelings about this. I used to find the sos package very 
useful when I first started using it but as the number of packages has 
grown I now find it gives me a huge list which takes a lot of time to 
digest. This may of course reflect my rudimentary search term selection 
skills.

Michael

On 08/09/2016 11:01, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> OK.  It is sort of fixed and sort of works.
>
> We'll keep it for now, but this is not going to work forever. When
> namazu fails completely I will not have the time to install a new
> search engine.
>
> One option is to use google. For a site like this, I think they will
> want some money, but I'm not sure, and I do not have the time to deal
> with it.
>
> We have over 10,000 packages now. I wonder if searching all help files
> is really helpful anymore.
>
> Jon
>
> On 09/07/16 22:06, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>> Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.
>>
>> I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
>> drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
>> to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
>> some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
>> indexing to hang completely.
>>
>> I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
>> work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
>> tomorrow, if it works overnight.)
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>>> Spencer,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>>
>>> I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site
and
>>> trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than
>>> one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
>>> files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and
Fedora
>>> maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:
>>>
>>> m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
>>> m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
>>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>> update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>>
update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load",
>>>
>> "
>>>
--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--htm
>>>
>> l
>>> "),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
>>> m3 <- new.packages()
>>>
install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-lo
>>>
>> a
>>>
d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","-
>>>
>> -
>>> html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>>
>>> Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
>>> packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you
don't
>>> use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.
>>>
>>> Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora
maintainers
>>> of R have set some defaults that are helpful.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>>> Hello, All:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
RSiteSearch
>>>> database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web
service
>>>> that Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch function in the
>>>> utils package.  (3) The sos package, for which I'm the
maintainer
>>>> and lead author.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       For me, the "findFn" capability with
"writeFindFn2xls" is the
>>>> fastest literature search for anything statistical.  However, I
>>>> don't have the resources to take over the management of
Baron's R
>>>> Site Search database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       He's provided a great service for the R community for
many
>>>> years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the system maintained.
>>>> Failing that, I could use help in adapting the sos package to
>>>> another database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Thanks,
>>>>       Spencer Graves
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject:     Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
>>>> Date:     Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>>>> From:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
>>>> To:     Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>>>> CC:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>,
>>>> chris.is.fun at gmail.com, info at datacamp.com <info at
datacamp.com>,
>>>> Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorairaj at gmail.com>, webmaster at
www.r-project-org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip, mknmz,
failed
>>>> to complete. It has been producing more and more errors and
warnings,
>>>> since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>>>>
>>>> I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things to do
aside
>>>> from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't
know (Perl),
>>>> or set up an alternative search engine.
>>>>
>>>> Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org webmaster, so
I'm
>>>> taking a stab. There are several links to this site in those
pages.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>> --
>>>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
Pennsylvania
>>>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
-- 
Michael
http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html

On 8 September 2016 at 06:01, Jonathan Baron wrote:
| We have over 10,000 packages now. I wonder if searching all help files
| is really helpful anymore.

Yes it is. I go to http://rdocumentation.org a lot for quick look-ups.

So thanks to Datacamp for running that.  

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

On 9/8/2016 5:01 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> OK.  It is sort of fixed and sort of works.
>
> We'll keep it for now, but this is not going to work forever. When
> namazu fails completely I will not have the time to install a new
> search engine.
>
> One option is to use google. For a site like this, I think they will
> want some money, but I'm not sure, and I do not have the time to deal
> with it.
>
> We have over 10,000 packages now. I wonder if searching all help files
> is really helpful anymore.

       The fastest way I know to do a literature search for anything 
statistical uses the sos package as follows:


             1.  docPages <- findFn('search string') or
findFn('{search
string}')


             2.  installPackages(docPages) # this installs packages to 
enable a more complete package summary


             3.  writeFindFn2xls(docPages) # this creates an Excel file 
with 3 sheets:  a package summary, the findFn table, and the call.


             4.  Then I open the Excel file, and review the package 
summary sheet.  I prioritize my search from there based on the number 
and strength of matches, how close it sounds to what I want, the date of 
the last update, whether it has a vignette, and the authors and 
maintainers.


       There may be a better way to do this using Google or something 
else.  I'd be pleased if someone else could enlighten me.  I admit to 
being biased:  I'm the lead author and maintainer of "sos".
However, I
don't want to perpetuate a tool that has outlived its usefulness, and 
I'm too blind to see that!


       Spencer
>
> Jon
>
> On 09/07/16 22:06, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>> Don't do anything yet. I may have found the problem by accident.
>>
>> I tried to use the computer from something else, and it was being
>> drastically slowed down by some leftover processes, which turned out
>> to be xlhtml. That is something that converts Excel files. Apparently,
>> some excel files got into the libraries, and they were causing the
>> indexing to hang completely.
>>
>> I am now running everything again, starting from scratch, and it might
>> work. (I'm doing it wrong, but it is 3/4 done. I will do it right
>> tomorrow, if it works overnight.)
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On 09/07/16 16:53, Jonathan Baron wrote:
>>> Spencer,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>>
>>> I am open to someone who knows Perl getting an account on my site
and
>>> trying to get it working. It will probably involve fixing more than
>>> one thing, as mknmz depends on some perl modules that also generate
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> My main contribution is figuring out how to extract the html help
>>> files and vignettes only, with some help from R developers and
Fedora
>>> maintainers. Here is the trick, for someone who wants to do it:
>>>
>>> m0 <- rownames(installed.packages())
>>> m1 <- m0[which(m0 %in% needed.packages)]
>>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>> update.packages(oldPkgs=m1,repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>>
update.packages(dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-load",
>>>
>> "
>>>
--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","--htm
>>>
>> l
>>> "),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
>>> m3 <- new.packages()
>>>
install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-lo
>>>
>> a
>>>
d","--no-R","--no-clean-on-error","--no-libs","--no-data","--no-demo","--no-exec","-
>>>
>> -
>>> html"),repos=biocinstallRepos())
>>>
>>> Note 1: The first 4 lines are designed to deal with a list of the
>>> packages that you actually use. These can be eliminated if you
don't
>>> use R on the same machine. The last 3 lines are all you need.
>>>
>>> Note 2: This works on Fedora, but I think that the Fedora
maintainers
>>> of R have set some defaults that are helpful.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On 09/07/16 15:41, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>>> Hello, All:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Jonathan Baron is "giving up" maintaining the
RSiteSearch
>>>> database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       This breaks three things:  (1) The R Site Search web
service
>>>> that Baron has maintained.  (2) The RSiteSearch function in the
>>>> utils package.  (3) The sos package, for which I'm the
maintainer
>>>> and lead author.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Might someone else be willing to take these over?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       For me, the "findFn" capability with
"writeFindFn2xls" is the
>>>> fastest literature search for anything statistical. However, I 
>>>> don't have the resources to take over the management of
Baron's R
>>>> Site Search database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       He's provided a great service for the R community for
many
>>>> years.  I hope we can find a way to keep the system maintained.
>>>> Failing that, I could use help in adapting the sos package to 
>>>> another database.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Thanks,
>>>>       Spencer Graves
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject:     Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
>>>> Date:     Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>>>> From:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
>>>> To:     Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
>>>> CC:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>, 
>>>> chris.is.fun at gmail.com, info at datacamp.com <info at
datacamp.com>,
>>>> Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorairaj at gmail.com>, webmaster at
www.r-project-org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> R site search has stopped working. The indexing scrip, mknmz,
failed
>>>> to complete. It has been producing more and more errors and
warnings,
>>>> since it has not been updated for 5 yeaers.
>>>>
>>>> I am giving up on this site. I have too many other things to do
aside
>>>> from find bugs in programs written in languages I don't
know (Perl),
>>>> or set up an alternative search engine.
>>>>
>>>> Please inform anyone else who needs to be informed.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot find the email of the www.r-project.org webmaster, so
I'm
>>>> taking a stab. There are several links to this site in those
pages.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of
Pennsylvania
>>>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
>> Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
>> Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>

On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:
>Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at
all averse
>to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well be a
>good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a
page and
>to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.
The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
every package, but the individual functions are not separated.

But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
this. But I would welcome it.

Jon
-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)

Would it make sense to recreate the "searchable R help pages" by
feeding
them all into elasticsearch, which will automatically index them and 
also provides an extensive (HTTP+JSON-based) API to perform complex 
searches?

On 9/8/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:
>> Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd
be at all
>> averse
>> to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well 
>> be a
>> good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up
such a
>> page and
>> to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.
>
> The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
> files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
> the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
> re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
> every package, but the individual functions are not separated.
>
> But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
> would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
> this. But I would welcome it.
>
> Jon

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