R help - Jul 2011 - How to search for R related topics in search engines?

Dear R folks,


I am having problems getting good results when searching for R related
topics, that means I have not found out yet what keywords I should use
to get only relevant results. Most of the time I get also MATLAB related
things and nothing related at all. The nature of this is of course the
name of R consisting just of one letter.

What keywords do you use? Or do you just go to certain sites and do not
use any search engine at all?

Until now I am always adding the keywords ?r statistical? to my search,
but it is not optimal.


Thanks,

Paul
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Use rseek.org.

Jeremy

On 27 July 2011 07:12, Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
>
> I am having problems getting good results when searching for R related
> topics, that means I have not found out yet what keywords I should use
> to get only relevant results. Most of the time I get also MATLAB related
> things and nothing related at all. The nature of this is of course the
> name of R consisting just of one letter.
>
> What keywords do you use? Or do you just go to certain sites and do not
> use any search engine at all?
>
> Until now I am always adding the keywords ?r statistical? to my search,
> but it is not optimal.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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On 27/07/2011 10:12 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
>
> I am having problems getting good results when searching for R related
> topics, that means I have not found out yet what keywords I should use
> to get only relevant results. Most of the time I get also MATLAB related
> things and nothing related at all. The nature of this is of course the
> name of R consisting just of one letter.
>
> What keywords do you use? Or do you just go to certain sites and do not
> use any search engine at all?
>
> Until now I am always adding the keywords ?r statistical? to my search,
> but it is not optimal.
I just add R as a search term.  I think Google does do some 
personalization of search results, so if you always choose the ones that 
involve R, you'll eventually have those ones get higher ranking 
(assuming Google knows who you are).

But it's also possible that Matlab is a better platform to solve the 
kinds of problems you are trying to solve in R.

Duncan Murdoch

On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
>
> I am having problems getting good results when searching for R related
> topics, that means I have not found out yet what keywords I should use
> to get only relevant results. Most of the time I get also MATLAB  
> related
> things and nothing related at all. The nature of this is of course the
> name of R consisting just of one letter.
>
> What keywords do you use? Or do you just go to certain sites and do  
> not
> use any search engine at all?
>
> Until now I am always adding the keywords ?r statistical? to my  
> search,
> but it is not optimal.
with Google:  either "r-project" or "language:r"

RSiteSearch("terms")

Use sos::findFn

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