From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Thu Sep  8 15:23:57 2016
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 08:23:57 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Fwd: Re: RSiteSearch, sos, rdocumentation.org, ...?
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On 9/8/2016 3:30 AM, Joris Meys wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I have neither the resources nor the skills to take over, but whatever 
> happens I want to thank you for all the work. Too often people forget 
> that all these nice tools keep working due to the devotion of people 
> like you.
>
> So thank you!
>


       I concur.  People all over the world live better today, because R 
made it easier for others to solve problems -- and Jon made a 
substantive contribution to that.  Spencer


> Cheers
> Joris
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2016 04:08, "Jonathan Baron" <baron at psych.upenn.edu 
> <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>> 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
>         <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","--html
>         "),repos=biocinstallRepos(),ask=F)
>         m3 <- new.packages()
>         install.packages(m3,dependencies=FALSE,INSTALL_opts=c("--no-configure","--no-test-loa
>         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
>             <http://rdocumentation.org>, ...?
>             Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:15:22 -0400
>             From:   Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
>             <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>
>             To:     Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com
>             <mailto:spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>>
>             CC:     Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu
>             <mailto:baron at psych.upenn.edu>>, chris.is.fun at gmail.com
>             <mailto:chris.is.fun at gmail.com>, info at datacamp.com
>             <mailto:info at datacamp.com> <info at datacamp.com
>             <mailto:info at datacamp.com>>, Sundar Dorai-Raj
>             <sdorairaj at gmail.com <mailto: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
>             <http://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
>             <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
>             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
>         <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
>         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
>     <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ebaron>
>     Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
>
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