[R] RPro

[Jonathan Baron]

On 08/10/08 12:57, Carl Witthoft wrote:
> One thing I'll say:  it's going to be much easier to Google for 
> references to "Rstat" than to "R" .
> I've been tempted to start a movement to rename "R" something like 
> "Ratistics" (or "RatStatPack" :-) ) just so it's locatable via search 
> engines.

If you type R in the Google search box, with nothing else, it takes
you right to R's main page.  This was pointed out to me in 2000 by a
math professor colleague, who said that it was a result of Google's
extremely clever algorithm.

> That said, does anyone have any techniques for Googling for info on some 
> particular R functionality?  I've had some luck with the term "R-help" 
> or "R-sig" but that leaves out an awful lot of websites.

RSiteSearch()

is one.  This is a function that mimics what happens at:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/nmz.html

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron