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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

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

Inspired by the functions that Barry Rawlingson and Dave Forrest posted for searching Rwiki and R-help archive, I've made up a function that does the search on Prof. Baron's site (Thanks to Prof. Baron's help on setting up the query string!): RSiteSearch <- function(string, restrict="Rhelp", format="long", sortby="score",

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,

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

Two improvements at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu 1. I have added all packages from CRAN, including contributed packages, so you can look for a package that does X. Check out the "Limit search to" box on the right, as well as "Sort by". 2. The new (beta) version of htdig (which I use) will search by phrases as well as words (so long as the phrases are made of words, it

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

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

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

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

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

For maintaining my R search page at http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu (also used for RSiteSearch(), I have been extracting only the html help pages and the vignettes from most packages. (Many will not compile on Linux. And, more generally, this saves wear and tear on the computer and me.) I wrote a version of the old INSTALL script that does this. I removed various parts of it, not fully

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

Hi, Jonathan: Thanks for letting us know. I can't imagine that the unavailability of RSiteSearch would be more than an inconvenience. When you get time, I'd like to know more about what you know about how it was hacked, the host operating system, any anti-virus / Internet protection software that failed and anything you think might reduce the risk of a repeat in the

Dear list, For all those interested who use Firefox as the main browser, here is a quick way to make R related searches: type "about:config" in the address bar search for "keyword.url" and modify it to "http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?idxname=functions&idxname=docs&idxname=Rhelp02a&query=" >From now on, every keyword(s) you type in

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,

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

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:

Hi everybody, I have to recognize that my post certainly shows my lack of skills in really navigating the R web page .... i am surprised that only one or two persons wrote me about the "Task Views" - it is what i was after - although maybe too general for my lazy taste - but hei - it is there and certainly makes my life easier. So - Thank you John and Gabor and Roger for pointing this

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/