[R] R mail list archive Google search function not work

[Marc Schwartz]

On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

>>>>>> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
>>>>>>    on Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:25:08 -0500 writes:
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>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:14 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
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>>>> On 26/03/14 12:51, David Winsemius wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Luo Weijun wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dear Robert and R project team,
>>>>>> I notice that the Google search function on the R mail list archives page has stopped working for quite a while, http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/.
>>>>>> Is there any solution on this or this has been move to another webpage? I know Google advance search can be used but the query is more complicated. This simple function could help R users greatly. Thank you!
>>>>>> Weijun
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Why not use MarkMail:
>>>>> http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.r-project.r-help
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or Gmane
>>>>> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/search/list:org.r-project.r-help
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Why not?  Well, for one thing the first link that the R web site points at is the tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/ link.  Which is *still there* but terminates at 31 March 2012.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm a bit confused about what is meant by "the R web site". Are you pointing out deficiencies in MarkMail or GMane?
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> 
>> David,
> 
>> If you go to:
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>> http://www.r-project.org
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>> and look at the left hand navigation frame, there is a "Search" link there, which brings up, in the right hand frame, a list of search sites (http://www.r-project.org/search.html), which still includes Robert's site at http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/.
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>> The archives there seem to stop at 2012 and the Google search box there seems to be non-functional from a quick check.
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>> I have not used his site in years and will use rseek.org these days.
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>> It seems to me that I recall discussion in the past about the status of Robert's site, but cannot seem to locate anything at the moment. I am not sure who maintains the R web site these days, but presumably that link should be removed if the search engine is no longer actively maintained.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Marc Schwartz
> 
> Thank you, Marc (and the other posters).
> R core has always been responsible for that, it is also an svn
> repos, mirrored daily to the web server.
> I have commented Robert King's mirror (and also added a bit
> about Nabble).
> You should be able to see the result within 24 hours.
> 
> Martin


Thanks Martin!

Regards,

Marc