[Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?

[Jonathan Baron]

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)