similar to: INSTALL html help (and vignettes) only?

For my R page at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ (also the target of RSiteSearch()), I'm trying to find a way to get the html versions of the help pages without actually installing packages. This will allow me to include packages that don't install. And it will also vastly speed up the monthly update, and make it easier to replicate everything in case of disaster. I have made a modified

Unfortunately, I am unable to get this search site working again. (The message below explains why I had to rebuild it.) The computer worked for the better part of a day downloading and installing all the help files from all CRAN packages. Somehow it failed to get the vignettes this time. But I pushed ahead and ran the part of namazu that makes the search indices: mknmz. And you can see the

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

On 9/8/2016 3:30 AM, Joris Meys wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > I have neither the resources nor the skills to take over, but whatever > happens I want to thank you for all the work. Too often people forget > that all these nice tools keep working due to the devotion of people > like you. > > So thank you! > I concur. People all over the world live better

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

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

First, my site will be down December 27-28 because of a network upgrade at Penn. It will also be down at least one day before that, while I upgrade the operating system. (And another day some time in January because of a planned power outage.) Second, I have replaced the search engine in my R site: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ I am now using Namazu instead of HtDig. The direct link to the

I've made a few changes in the indices in my R search site. http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu is the general URL, and RSiteSearch takes you to http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html, which is equivalent to http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/nmz.html. The main change is that I have eliminated "Previous message" and "Next message" from each page. (I still have "Next in

This is about my searchable archive. The function RSiteSearch() now searches this archive. I'm considering the following changes. If you have comments, please write me. Try to avoid cc'ing the list. The Rhelp02a directory, which now contains all list mail from 2002 (about 100 MB), is getting larger and larger. This probably cannot go on forever, and performance might even improve if

I'd like to generate 00Index.html for a bunch of libraries for my R search page. I have now almost all the html help files for individual functions, even for packages that won't install on my computer (e.g., because they are specific to Windows). I made these using Rdconv. But that won't make the 00Index file, and neither will Rdindex, which makes a text file. I'm probably

It used to be that, whenever I added or updated a new package, the file /usr/lib/R/doc/html/packages.html would be updated (on Linux). Now I find that this does not happen anymore. So I found this function make.packages.html, which seems to do what I think should be done automatically. But it puts its output in a file in /tmp/..., which I then have to move, in an extra step, to where it should

The search site at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ is back up. This allows you to search mailing list archives, R functions from most packages, and documents. You can also use the R function RSiteSearch() in R itself, which opens the results in your browser. I'm sorry the site was down for so long. I plan to work out a system that will allow faster restoration if this happens again (mutual

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

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,

Does anyone know how to read a SYSTAT .syd file on Linux? (Splus 6 does it, but it is easier to find a Windows box with Systat than to download their demo. I'm wondering if there is a better way than either of these options.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page:

The RPM for Fedora Core 2 seems to work just fine on Core 3. (The graphics window got smaller, but I'm sure there is a setting for that.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/

The RPM for Fedora Core 2 seems to work just fine on Core 3. (The graphics window got smaller, but I'm sure there is a setting for that.) Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/

Any hints on how to do a significance test using gee? Is the "robust z" the thing to use? There is apparently another implementation of gee called yags (http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~carey), but I can't figure out how to install it. I think it does significance tests. -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page:

I don't understand the advantages of generating html help dynamically, but I have found some clear disadvantages. One is that I can no longer use a bookmark in my browser to access the list of packages and go from there to individual help pages. The other is that, if I try to use ESS instead (using options(help_type="html") in .Rprofile) - it is a mess. ESS splits the emacs frame

I recently updated my search site at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu It took about 7 hours with htDig, instead of the usual 3 hours. Now, when I search the "functions" index I get all sorts of non-html documents (indicated with brackets). These have never shown up before. Did htDig mogrify itself while it sat on my computer? (I didn't do anything to change it.) Or, more likely, I