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

[Kevin Coombes]

Would it make sense to recreate the "searchable R help pages" by feeding 
them all into elasticsearch, which will automatically index them and 
also provides an extensive (HTTP+JSON-based) API to perform complex 
searches?

On 9/8/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> On 09/08/16 07:09, John Merrill wrote:
>> Given Google's commitment to R, I don't think that they'd be at all 
>> averse
>> to supporting a custom search box on the package page. It might well 
>> be a
>> good thing for "someone" to examine the API for setting up such a 
>> page and
>> to investigate how to mark the main CRAN page as searchable.
>
> The main CRAN page is not ideal. We need to be able to search the help
> files. My site has only the html help files for each package (except
> the ones I use, which are fully installed), so someone should
> re-create that. The CRAN page has a "Reference manual" in pdf for
> every package, but the individual functions are not separated.
>
> But, yes, Google would work, even for my page. And the sos package
> would have to be modified for that. As I said, I'm not going to do
> this. But I would welcome it.
>
> Jon


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