My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much faster than the old one. It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND, etc.). Suggestions are welcome. -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
It's a great service, which I use on average several times each day. Thanks for providing this. Spencer Graves Jonathan Baron wrote:>My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several >problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it >now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much >faster than the old one. > >It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R >documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. >Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND, >etc.). > >Suggestions are welcome. > >
Martin Maechler
2003-Dec-02 08:56 UTC
[R] search site for R (http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu)
Dear Professor Baron, Thank you very much for this service!>>>>> "Jon" == Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu> >>>>> on Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:58:33 -0500 writes:Jon> My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had Jon> several problems recently, all my fault, for which I Jon> apologize. But it now seems to be running reliably, on Jon> a new computer that is much faster than the old one. Jon> It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing Jon> list, R documents, R functions, and various Jon> combinations of these. Search has several options, Jon> including Boolean search (with AND, etc.). Jon> Suggestions are welcome. -- Jonathan Baron, Professor Jon> of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania I've been asked more than once: While it's cumbersome to provide a link to this from the "pipermail" archives, I have now added a link to the finzi page on the main R-help mailing list page --- the one at the end of every R-help posting. Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <><
Hi, I didn't know your search engine. Thank you very much for providing this tool. As far as I am concerned, I think that something like that was missing: R is growing so fast that it becomes difficult for the poor human to know all available facilities. I know many people using SPlus that wont change to R because they would have difficulties to find equivalent functions. They dont know the poweR! It would be very great to have a portal that allows a quick access to all the available documentation/stuff about R. For the students here, I also prepared a support page allowing to search across R functions (R Help Center: http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/). I created a FileMaker database containing more than 11000 functions (name, description, library and code). Doing research on the code and having the possibility to browse it is very usefull. Nervertheless, I dont think I will have time to update it on a regular basis. Thus, my suggestion is to add function's code to your search engine. If I understand well what you use, for that, you will have to generate a flat file for each function. If you are interestd, I have pieces of code that could do the stuff. Eric At 00:58 2/12/2003, Jonathan Baron wrote:>My search site, http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu, has had several >problems recently, all my fault, for which I apologize. But it >now seems to be running reliably, on a new computer that is much >faster than the old one. >It uses htdig to permit search of the Rhelp mailing list, R >documents, R functions, and various combinations of these. >Search has several options, including Boolean search (with AND, >etc.). >Suggestions are welcome. >-- >Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania >Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron-------------------------------------------------- L'erreur est certes humaine, mais un vrai d?sastre n?cessite un ou deux ordinateurs. Citation anonyme -------------------------------------------------- Eric Lecoutre Informaticien/Statisticien Institut de Statistique / UCL TEL (+32)(0)10473050 lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be URL http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISpersonnel/lecoutre