[R] Best way to search r- functions and mailing list?

[Spencer Graves]

The "sos" package is designed to search help pages only and sort the 
results by package.  It includes a vignette describing how to get the 
results as an Excel file giving an efficient summary of which packages 
contain help pages of interest including the latest date updated, etc. 
I designed the package to be the quickest lit search for anything 
statistical, and I don't know of anything better.  I may want to look 
elsewhere later, but I always start a lit search there.  I suspect that 
others have not found it that useful or someone else would have 
mentioned it earlier on this thread ;-)  Spencer


On 4/5/2012 9:40 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
> I usually use http://www.rseek.org
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jonathan Greenberg<jgrn at illinois.edu>  wrote:
>> R-helpers:
>>
>> It looks like http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html has stopped
>> spidering the mailing lists -- this used to be my go-to site for
>> searching for R solutions.  Are there any good replacements for this?
>> I want to be able to search both functions and mailing lists at the
>> same time.  Cheers!
>>
>> --j
>>
>> --


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